🏁 Why long term is the key to success · The Bunker #77
Long-term over short-term mindset: How this can help you drastically improve your career.
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Honestly, I used to be very obsessed with things.
I wanted everything as soon as possible; in general, I had little patience, from personal relationships to professional ones, everything had to be immediate.
And this is really a problem because it leads to a lot of frustration when you realize that things usually don't happen instantly.
Benefits
First of all, let's talk about benefits, what positive aspects does this bring us?
Long-term must be understood as the timeline in Premiere Pro, you have a project zoomed in a lot, it looks very long, but then when you zoom out, you see the whole video at once.
If you zoom in a lot and cut a piece, you may see a completely black part on the timeline.
But if you zoom out, you'll realize that you may not even see the cut.
This helps us to put things into perspective: Not everything is that important.
That is to say: I had a problem today.
What impact does this have? Well, surely in my day-to-day life, it has a certain impact.
But in an 80-year view, it's not even 0.5% of our life.
When you first meet a person, you won't realize what that person is like until possibly 2-3 years later. It may take 2-3 years to really get to know that person well (with exceptions, of course).
So how can we synchronize this with the world of design? Well, let's talk for example about the magnificent theme of consistency.
How can you be more consistent if you take everything in the long term?
Consistency is relative; you establish what being consistent means. One design a week, one design a day?
If I “fail today”, is it really a drama? In a 10-year view, if I design every day, is it really important if I fail one day or one week or one month?
No, not really.
Seeing life with a zoom out is important to put things into perspective: Nothing is really that important.
If I don't go to the gym today, it's okay because it's the consistency in the long term that matters.
This also helps us not to demand so much of ourselves.
It's no use staying up working until late at night today.
What matters is that today you work enough so that you have time to rest, and tomorrow you keep working.
How can you be more consistent? Just by taking it easy.
I know this is something I'm going to have to do for a long time, so let's take it easy.
It's okay if I don't post a newsletter article or a YouTube video every week.
I know I'm going to be doing this for years; what matters is that in 10 years, I've consistently posted content.
It's not a drama if I fail one week.
Obviously, this is not an excuse to just throw everything forward and downplay things.
But it is to relieve that anxiety of "damn, I've failed, damn, I'm not consistent anymore."
Taking things slowly also helps us make better decisions.
For example: I have to finish a project for next week, and this week my uncles have suggested going to see my grandparents.
I have 2 options: Delay the project and go see my grandparents this weekend.
Or not delay the project and miss the opportunity to see my grandparents.
In the short term, it sucks to have to delay what I've committed to.
In the long term, does it really matter if it's a week? Is it really necessary or important to delay this for 7 days in exchange for being able to see my grandparents?
This mindset is also very important to apply to the imposter syndrome or the learning curve as a designer.
If one day you have a crappy day, it's just one crappy day, one week, one month, whatever.
But viewed over 80 years, it's nothing.
If this week this happened to me, I still have a whole life ahead of me to learn little by little.
We shouldn't fall asleep, obviously, but it's also not necessary to be subjected to the stress of having to do everything right now or achieve things instantly.
Doing projects, for example, usually takes 3 or 4 attempts until you find something that works.
Creating content isn't done in 2 days; the merit of being a successful content creator is the ability to have had enough patience and confidence to gradually upload for 5 years.
So, starting a YouTube channel knowing that success will eventually come in 2 years' time rather than right after your next upload will relieve a ton of pressure from you immediately and will help you plan much better, take the time to do stuff, etc.
It's more important to go to the gym for 15 minutes for 10 years than for 2 hours a day for 2 years.
Everything is long term; this will help us enjoy the journey, help us be patient, visualize everything for later.
And I'm not saying this, any successful entrepreneur can tell you.
They say it for a reason, right?
Even in the investment world they will always tell you, invest for the long term, hold your investments.
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