First, our dreams will probably take way longer than we’re expecting. Years, if not decades of straight-up hard work. Remember that ten-thousand-hours thing? There will be days, even months, where you roll over in the morning and think, Another day . . . There’s a reason patience is fast becoming a thing of the past. It’s brutally hard. Second, other people will do a lot better than us. No matter how smart or hard working or gifted or charismatic we are, there will always be somebody better than us.
