The Long Game Is Hard
Very few people commit to mastery because it requires playing the long game. It takes years of deep work and deliberate practice.
Why spend ten years becoming so good they can’t ignore you, when you can spend 20 seconds uploading a picture to Instagram or composing a tweet to be so average that they pay attention to you for a fraction of a second.
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