Good morning, my friends. Welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,752. Today, I'm sharing with you an excerpt from my favorite newsletter Brain Food by Shane Parrish. Listen to this thought, quote, everyone looks for the miracle moment, the moment when success happens. We're drawn to these moments because we want to

know the secret. We want to know the ingredient that we are missing, the ingredient that makes the

recipe. The problem is there is no miracle moment. If you want to understand success, you can't

focus on what's visible.

Results are simply one more step in a long chain of steps that lead to that moment.

Nature offers a great example with bamboo.

It takes up to five years to develop its roots.

For years, to the outside observer, no visible progress has been made.

Meanwhile, the bamboo grows below the surface, developing its roots and storing energy. Then, all at once, it starts to grow. Years of

stored energy results in exponential growth, sometimes reaching over 50 feet in a matter of weeks.

That's how results happened, slowly and then all at once.

Everyone wants results.

No one wants the process that leads to them.

That's boring.

There are two main lessons to take away.

Number one, not all progress is visible. Don't beat yourself up when

things are invisible. One workout won't make you fit, but it's better than no workout. A small

deposit in your bank account today won't get you to your goal, but it moves you closer.

The daily grind is part of the process.

Consistently, number two, consistently doing boring things will lead to extreme outperformance. Most of the time we know what we need to do.

The problem is we don't do, we don't immediately see the results.

We stop.

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