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Notes on doing it — Day #355: Accept the uncertainty
It’s simply a prerequisite for success
I’m currently sitting in an online queue with hundreds of thousands of other people to check my annual tax return for last year. Don’t even ask. It’s a Danish thing.
At first the queuing system couldn’t tell me exactly how long my wait was going. It simply said “more than an hour”. Which isn’t really precise if you ask me. But ss the queuing system was finally able to calculate how much longer I needed to wait, the wait time suddenly didn’t feel as unbearable.
That got me thinking: One of the biggest struggles when it comes to trying to make it in any field or industry is the uncertainty about whether or not you will actually succeed. And if you do, when it will be. If only there were some kind of magic number of hours you needed to practice for or a specific amount of effort you had to give, to know that you were going to make it.
But there isn’t. And for the most part, the real battle is to keep pushing through that uncertainty. You just have to accept it, if you want a chance to succeed.
