Some things cannot be speeded up beyond a natural limit
Summary
- Some things cannot be speeded up beyond a natural limit
Details
- Warren Buffet used the example that you cant make a baby in one monht by getting nine women pregnant.
- some things such as learning a skill or investing must necessarily take a long period of time
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Quotes
Warren Buffett once joked that you can’t make a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
You’d be surprised, though, how common it is for people to attempt to speed up a process beyond what it can handle.
Whenever people discover something valuable—particularly a lucrative investment or a special skill—there is a tendency to ask, “Great, but can I have it all faster?” Can we push it twice as hard? Can we make it twice the size? Can we squeeze some more juice out of it?
Related
- 3x - Spiritual/31 Notes/31.03 Structure Notes/Patience
- Improve patience by doing things that take long to accomplish
- Keep strong, if possible. In any case, keep cool. Have unlimited patience. Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save face - B. H. Liddell Hart
- Carpenters learn to be patient and to plan
- You can recall everything you have worked hard and patiently for in your life, but how many things that you have attained with little or no effort can you remember - Thomas Sterner