Persistency & Consistency

The key words for today are these two, which seem are similar meaning, and that's the point. I read two articles on Medium today, I added to the Readlist yesterday, they pretty much shared the identical idea of starting early to cultivate your ability and skills and keep doing it. But slight different attitute towards the process and destination. One said "don't spare too much attention to the little wins along the way, don't let those small sweet derail you from the main road to the ultimate purpose and goal"; and the other said "just enjoy the process, focus on the process itself'.

There is a "catch-22" situation for learning something new. When you don't gain any competence of doing a particular thing, you don't have the confidence or interest of contiuning pursueing that. But you can only build up your competency by doing it. You get better when you're able to get better.

Then I sat back and looked more carefully about what they were saying, and recalled the TED talk I have been learning these days, about the first femal swimmer Nyade achieved crossing the ocean between Cuba and Florida. She believed that the journey was sweeter than the destination, and never give up.

Suddenly, I came to an epiphany that they all three told me the same thing, the paths are the same. Keep consistent and delay gratification, reaching for the horizon while building up brick by brick.