“80 percent of success is just showing up.” –Woody Allen

It is amazing how true the above quote is… and how often ignored… especially by Creatives.  (I’m not talking out of turn here, because I am both a Creative AND an offender.)

To me, this ties in with Seth Godin’s 10,000 hours to mastery, Isaac Asimov’s “the first million words are for practice”, and Earl Nightengale’s (I think) “study a subject for an hour a day for 3 years and become an authority, for 5 years and become the world’s top expert”.

I think it also ties in with Edison’s “Genius is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.”

Here’s why I think all those things are basically talking about the same thing.  They are all about persisting when the going gets difficult… or boring… or time crunches come… or our attention wanders… or we would rather go play.

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