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I played the long game for the past 8 years. I worked on my first project for 3 years, it was a failure. I worked on my second project for 5 years, I still can'
by jondubois 8y ago
I played the long game for the past 8 years. I worked on my first project for 3 years, it was a failure. I worked on my second project for 5 years, I still can't earn a regular salary from it.
I worked insanely hard for 8 years; most nights after work and almost all my weekends. I can't say that the long 'game' works. It really doesn't feel like a game anymore though.
Most successful people I've met play the short game. People like to play the short game because it works.
- tw1010 8y agoSorry if this is blunt, but playing the long game still requires that you take into account common fallacies, like sunk cost. Maybe successful people who played the short game did so because they skipped from opportunity to opportunity once they realized their investment wasn't going to be worth it in the long run.
- jondubois 8y agoBut what is the difference between sunk cost and necessary persistence? Sometimes it's not obvious at all. There are many cases of people who were failing for decades but they persisted and then out of nowhere they got their big break. There are also many cases (probably even more of them) where people persisted but went nowhere. It's only sunk cost in hindsight.