What I learned from the Podcast with Flynt…

When we quit in pursuit of a goal, it’s usually because of one reason: we were producing no results.

Let’s follow the journey of starting a YouTube channel. You create the channel, record a video, edit it, and post it. After five days, you looked at your video and got… two views. That’s okay, it was your first video. So, you go again and repeat the process. You continue this for three more months. You look at your most recent video, and it got… 11 views. Three months for 11 views!? You’ve had enough and never look back at the channel ever again. Why would you? All your hard work accounted for nothing, right?

Wrong.

It’s so easy to quit nowadays because we obsess over results. Social media is constantly showing us what other people are achieving and getting, causing us to get hung up on the tangible consequences of our efforts.

Going back to the YouTube journey, you believe you achieved nothing. But I argue quite the opposite. Consistently posting videos for three months has honed your discipline, polished your video editing skills, and sparked your creativity. These are significant achievements that often go unappreciated.

The trajectory of progress and results are inverse. Initially, your results increase at a prolonged rate while you progress at an immensely high rate. Every step you take in the starting process demonstrates a colossal step in your learning. After an extensive period, the results will finally start coming, and in significant numbers. But many people don’t reach this stage because they deem the rate of results in the beginning as not good enough. But if people instead focused on their rate of progress, they would be much more satisfied and motivated to stay on the journey until the noticeable results start flooding in.

For someone to achieve results, they need to become an individual that can attain those results. If you don’t have results, you are not worthy of those results at the moment. To become this worthy individual, a person must experience a substantial learning process.

Focus on your progress in the short term, and you will achieve results in the long term.

Stop Comparing. Start Learning.