We're still talking about working for the long term.

The next tweet on that topic is apply specific knowledge with leverage and eventually you will get what you deserve.

I would also add to that apply judgment, apply accountability and apply the skill of reading.

This one is just a glib way of saying that it takes time.

Even once you have all these pieces in place, there is an indeterminate amount of time that you're going to have to put in.

If you're counting, you will run out of patience before it actually arrives.

You just have to make sure that you give these things a proper time.

Life is long. Charlie Munger had some line on this.

Somebody asked him about making money and he reinterpreted that and he said what the questioner is actually asking is,

how do I get rich like you but faster before I end up as an really old guy?

Everybody wants it immediately, but the world is an efficient place.

Immediate doesn't work. You do have to put in the time.

You do have to put in the hours.

I think you just have to put yourself in the position with the specific knowledge,

with the accountability, with the leverage, with the authentic skill set that you have to be the best in the world at what you do.

Then you have to enjoy it and just keep doing it and keep doing it and keep doing it and don't keep track and don't keep count.

Because if you do, you will run out of time.

I can look back at my career and the people two decades ago that I had identified as brilliant and hardworking but hadn't thought much more about it.

They're all successful now almost without exception.

On a long enough time scale, you do get paid but it can easily be 10 or 20 years.

Sometimes it's five and if it's five or three and a friend of yours got there, it can drive you insane.

But those are exceptions and for every winner, there's multiple failures.

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