It doesn't matter what the game is.
It always comes down to inches and who is willing to crawl one inch further than their opponent. I am a sports guy but it can translate to life, business or any space in which their is competition.
How much are you willing to put in or to sacrifice to win. Friends, family, money, comforts.... If your opposition is willing to sacrifice these then they are already ahead.
Luckily most of us don't operate at this level of competition where it's necessary to go this far but at the top 1% every inch counts.
I got a few autobiographies for Xmas as i always do but i find top athletes so fascinating in their obsession to win and the lengths that they will go to for that last inch.
The three that I'm reading at the moment are
- My story - Joe Canning.
- Screaming at the sky - Tony Griffin
- Devotion - Mickey Harte.
These might not be household names to people outside Ireland but we have our own top level sports here and these would be big names to people over here.
But I've read a lot of autobiographies over the years from these athletes, to Tiger woods, Lewis Hamilton, Roger Federer across sports but even biographies from the business world such as Bill gates, Elon Musk and many others.
The theme remains eerily similar no matter what profession they are in. The top people in their field are the ones who are obsessed. The ones who start earlier and finish later every day. The ones who put more hours into practicing, more time into studying, more time into improving.
It's a simple recipe but it's not for everyone.
There is always somebody more talented, with more advantages, that gets a break but these people refuse to stop. The keep going until they make their own break, until they get noticed until they cannot be ignored anymore.
Those are the inches that they are willing to suffer for.
Crypto is going to be no different.
So many project have failed because the people weren't willing to go all in for it. That were in it for a quick profit. That weren't willing to suffer through the tough years.
Hive has done a lot of this through the years in terms of struggle and suffering but we haven't outworked anybody yet. There are lots of other projects grinding harder and building faster than us and that is the difference between success and failure.
Fortunately we're still in the game but there is a long way to go yet to get to the top table.
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The title of the second book seems very interesting. I think for most people, being in this phase of being obsessed is necessary to get want they want or decide to live a life that's not ordinary or average. How to enter and exit this phase is a different thing altogether.