Warren Buffett once joked that you can’t make a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. You’d be surprised, though, how common it is for people to attempt to speed up a process beyond what it can handle. Whenever people discover something valuable—particularly a lucrative investment or a special skill—there is a tendency to ask, “Great, but can I have it all faster?” Can we push it twice as hard? Can we make it twice the size? Can we squeeze some more juice out of it?
