The Ancient One: How did you get to reattach severed nerves and put a human spine back together bone by bone?
Dr. Stephen Strange: Study and practice, years of it.
-MCU Dr Strange
How long did most of us study for?
6 years primary school, 4-6 years secondary. (JC is considered sec school.)
Then 3-6 years tertiary education.
Being proficient in a new skill requires years of study and practice.
Study, learn, practice, make mistakes, repeat, etc...
Even in games, we train, we go through learning skills, spells, fireball level 1, level 2, level 3... level 10...
So... I think it should be quite normal for people to understand that, these things take time.
Most things don't happen overnight.
And yet... in our instant world of "now"... we forget this.
We want everything now. We want to lose weight now, get rich quick, etc...
So... really if anyone is offering to teach you to get rich quick... I'd really think more about it.
Or those.... learn to trade with only 15 minutes a day...
Same as lose weight with 5 minutes everyday.
Many people took years to become successful at what they do.
Even people like Bill Gates, Mark Zukerberg, Warren Buffet, Joseph Schooling, etc.
It's not an overnight thing.
We only know it as overnight cos we never heard of them before they became successful.
So it appears that they are successful overnight.
But behind this success was years of sacrifice, practice, mistakes, amending those mistakes, etc.
And we don't see all these.
Some people manage to do it in shorter time than others.
But never overnight. (Lottery and inheritance doesn't count.)
Sedikit-sedikit lama-lama jadi bukit
And since everything takes time... then better to start early than late right?
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