Every success that I've had in my life has been very hard-fought and has been a process of a lot of behind-the-scenes work undertaken consistently, aggressively, and anonymously. You move these mountains over a very slow period of time.

What happens is people want the success; they want the result; they don't appreciate the hard work that goes into it; and they're not patient enough to undertake the long journey required and the learning that gets packed into all of that to mature and grow over time.

Most people overestimate what they can do in a short period of time, whether it's a month or six months or a year, and wildly underestimate what they're capable of accomplishing over a decade or a number of years.

The quick fix kind of hack your life mentality is a close cousin to the clickbait soundbite media culture. We all want it now. We want it immediately. We want to be the best version of ourselves tomorrow. We want to read this book or do this one thing and fix everything overnight. And it just doesn't work that way.