To those who thirst for wealth: Do you have the patience of a lion?
People dreaming of financial freedom and 'financial healing' head to bookstores even today. Best-seller corners are packed with books on how to get rich and the secrets to raking in money, and YouTube algorithms constantly recommend secrets for earning $10,000 a month in the AI era.
But what does it really look like inside? Some stories seem easy enough to do right away, while others seem completely unrealistic and hard to understand. But there is one interesting thing: there is actually nothing special about the secrets shared by successful people. They are all just common-sense stories everyone knows.
Then why do some achieve their dreams while others stay in the same place? Are they born geniuses? Or are they given 48 hours a day? In this post, we will talk about the essence of success we have been overlooking: patience, persistence, and the aesthetics of constant manual correction.
1. The Decisive Difference Between the Successful and the Ordinary: Patience
A lion's hunt is not an edited video
We see lions sprinting toward prey and succeeding in an instant on TV documentaries. But that is just the result of editing only the dramatic scenes. In the real wild, a lion's hunting success rate is less than 20%.
A lion forms a team, understands topographical advantages, and waits in silence for hours until the optimal time for a single hunt comes. When they target giant, horned prey, they must risk their lives. In fact, many lionesses are seriously injured or die from being gored during hunts. Even beasts endure and do their best for survival and success at the risk of their lives—how much patience do we have?
The excuse of losers who cannot distinguish dreams from delusions
Some people say, "Dreams don't come true, that's why they're called dreams!" When I dismissed this as nonsense, someone countered by asking how their dream of flying in the sky could come true. That is a delusion, not a dream.
A dream is a goal possible to achieve in reality, a point reachable through effort and strategy. A delusion, on the other hand, is an unrealistic fantasy coming from an unhealthy state of mind. Successful people set achievable goals and endure periods of patience to make them a reality. Failures mistake delusions for dreams and draw a line saying it can't be done anyway to justify their lack of effort.
2. Lessons from an Airplane's Autopilot
No airplane flies in a straight line to its destination
When an airplane takes off and turns on its autopilot upon reaching a stable orbit, it seems to fly in a straight line to the destination without a single error. But when you zoom in on the path, it is actually a series of constant 'zig-zags.'
The Earth is rotating, and there are unpredictable winds and currents in the sky. The airplane constantly deviates from its course, and the system detects this and constantly corrects direction. Without this fine-tuning process, the airplane would arrive at a place completely opposite its intended destination or go missing.
Success is a boring repetition of correction
Ordinary people think everything is over once they set a destination. But successful people willingly perform the boring repetition of checking and correcting whether they are going correctly. It seems like a small thing, but the result is completely different. Without these corrections, you end up at the crash site of failure instead of the intended destination.
3. Are You Holding the Steering Wheel Correctly Now?
Steering is necessary even on a straight road
If you don't understand, think about driving a car. Suppose you are driving on a high-speed highway that is perfectly straight from point A to point B. Even if there is not a single other car around, can you go without moving the steering wheel once?
It is absolutely impossible. Depending on the wind direction, road slope, and tire wear, the car will lean slightly to one side. We unconsciously adjust the steering wheel minutely to keep the car in the center of the lane. Someone who does not succeed is someone who does not do this fine-tuning steering.
The reality of patience and effort lies in consistency
No matter how easy the goal seems, patience and effort are required to go straight to the destination. Effort here does not just mean working hard. It means the energy to constantly restrain and correct yourself so you don't deviate from the goal.
- Direction Setting: Establish a clear destination (dream)
- Monitoring: Frequently check where you are
- Fine-Tuning: Exercise patience to correct a skewed direction
Conclusion: Patience and Effort Never Betray You
Ultimately, success is not a realm of great genius or luck. It is the result of a lion's patience waiting for the next opportunity despite a 20% success rate, an airplane's trouble correcting its path thousands of times to reach its destination, and a driver's concentration not letting go of the steering wheel even on a straight road.
Are you frustrated because your efforts don't seem to be bearing fruit now? You haven't failed. You are just in the process of fine-tuning the steering wheel to reach your destination.
Finally, if you don't know how to do fine-tuning (short-term goals) to reach your destination (long-term goals), start your journey with iRooting! iRooting will be a reliable helper that helps you reach your destination of success by checking and correcting your progress every day.
Patience and effort never betray you. This is not an out-of-date phrase from a moral book, but a physical law by which the universe and nature operate, and an absolute principle of success. Don't give up and keep adjusting your steering wheel. Only those who endure the process with iRooting will eventually reach the destination they wanted.