Steve on how a person can become a "cow"

Every person who has a quest wants to be very good, which is not a bad thing. But after all, very few people in the end will really become very good. Recently, I saw a very cattle article on the Internet, the title is: Becoming very bullish is the result of continuously getting better little by little. （How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatably）。 The article itself is pretty good.

The author of this article is a girl named Steph Smith, who doesn't look very good, but the writing makes people feel very cowy.

Below I share some sentences of this article and my impressions, the original link will be attached to the back.

Perhaps, success is nothing more than the result of continuous progress. （Perhaps “great’, is just “good”, but repeatable.）

There is a mathematical curve called an exponential curve. Success is very similar to this curve. Interested friends can go to the Internet search index function curve to see. This curve starts out very slowly, and later the lift becomes very steep. Take reading, when you start reading a few books, you don't feel any progress, if you read hundreds or thousands of books, you have a wealth of background knowledge, and the harvest of reading a book at this time is like an exponential function. So it's not hard to understand What Steve Smith is saying that "success is the result of continuous progress."

Anyone who gets up 360 days a year before the sun comes out can't make his family's life too bad. （No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.）

This quote from Steve from [Malcolm Gladwell]] [[Outliers]]. It doesn't sound like there's anything hard to understand, it's simple and simple, it's just not easy to do. Because continuous effort every day is like seeing the horizon in the distance in the place of the Ichima Hirakawa River, and I can't walk for many days. Indeed, most people use far more effort to find the secret of success than they do to specific work, which may be a significant reason why most people cannot succeed. People are reluctant to continue to give their effort and hard work for a certain job. All the abandonment of people has a reason in their own eyes, and the reasons are outrageous.

The surest path to success is consistency. （the best way to “success” is through consistency.）

Consistency is hard because too many times we want to give up, and we tend to give up most of the time. Indeed, think about our daily lives, what we do every day, about persistence, how do we do it? Think about it's hard to get up at 6 a.m. every morning? Think about how easy it is to abandon one project and go on another? Think about it, is it difficult to stick to a side business for a long time, especially if this side business has not had any income for a long time? Think about when you meet a girl you like, your original girlfriend happens to be away, at this time will you feel that it is difficult not to give up the original feelings? Think about it for decades, have you found it difficult to invest in a relationship faithfully? Do you feel that there are always countless reasons to betray and that the problem is not yours?

Obviously, there are always highs and lows in life. But when we're at a low ebb, we forget that. We will give up the pursuit completely at a certain low ebb, because we can't see that it is not far around the corner, and success is waiting for you there. （With the ups, there are always downs. This seems obvious, but we often forget this when we are in periods of down. We quit at these local minimums, because we cannot see the next peak right around the corner.）

If there are 100 steps in pursuit of an ideal, and we happen to be on the 50th step, we can see the 49th step and we can see the 51st step, but it is difficult to see the 60th or farther.

The best thing in life is often not a miracle, but a well-thought-out, sustainable approach. The same applies to business, marriage, and anything else that has a repeatable element. （The best things in life often aren’t miracles, but well-thought out approaches that are sustainable. The same thing is true with businesses, marriages, and just about anything with repeatable elements.）

So, can we understand that to become a cow, we need to live consciously and take conscious actions, not automatic actions? In life, most people will deviate, more often unconsciously. I wanted to finish something in the morning, but at night I forgot it and when I remembered it, it was time to go to bed.

Focusing on continuous action and seeing success as a byproduct of sustained action is far more effective and healthier than seeing success as your goal. （it’s much more effective (and healthy) to aim for continuous habits that bring you success as a byproduct, not as the end goal.）

Making continuous action a goal and success a by-product is healthier and happier.

Greatness comes from a definite or studied process, and following this process leads to a certain degree of certainty. （“Greatness” comes from an identified or researched process that when followed, has some degree of certainty in the outcome.）

Think about what would happen if you practiced meditation every day? Think about what would happen if you were writing every day? Think about what you've been up to the longest? If you can be sure that doing one thing over and over again will make you better, why not do it?

Ask yourself the question, if I did this every day for the following year, would I get better? If the answer is "yes," then that's how you get better. （Ask yourself the question: “If I were to continue this every day for the next year, would I be in a better place?” If the answer is yes, you have a path towards “good”.）

You don't have to strive for perfection or even greatness, just see the signs of "good" and start acting and make real progress. （Do not look for perfection or even greatness, but instead signs of “good” and start making tangible progress.）

"Good" signs are actually easy to see, and a lot of times we don't care to see them because we want a big surprise too much.

Trying to improve your abilities by reading is as ineffective as hoping to improve your physical fitness by watching others exercise. （Reading to improve is like watching someone else workout – it does almost nothing for you.

A similar statement seems to be: knowing a lot of truth, still can't live the life you want.

I would advise not to focus on perfection, as it is often the enemy of the successful.

Yes, there are too many people who are accustomed to focusing on perfection, and this habit is "perfect" and makes people unable to act. One of the questions I thought about writing this is: Will I become very good at writing this thing? Sure, it won't, will it get a little better? Absolutely. You can go through my article to see Steve Smith's original work, or you may even leave this page and read Steve's article before you can finish reading the sharing I wrote. Great, that's what I want you to do. There are many more wonderful articles on Steve's blog that I hope will be helpful to you. Good luck! Above, I saw the sentences in the article written by Steve that touched me, and the questions that came to mind, hoping that this "brick" can lead to your "jade". Finally attached is a link to the original article: https://blog.stephsmith.io/how-to-be-great/

The image of the article is from the Internet.