Brilliance is overrated. Consistency wins every time.

Some chase breakthroughs. They wait for the perfect idea, the perfect moment, the perfect plan. They convince themselves that success comes from one big move. It doesn’t. It comes from relentless consistency.

MrBeast didn’t go viral overnight. He spent years making videos that no one watched. Warren Buffett didn’t build his fortune from one brilliant investment. He made small, smart decisions, year after year, decade after decade.

Serena Williams didn’t become the greatest by winning one tournament. She built her dominance through brutal repetition. Practicing serves. Refining footwork. Showing up every day whether she felt like it or not.

The best aren’t necessarily the smartest or the most talented. They are the ones who keep going. They outlast, outwork, and out-iterate everyone else.

Always building. Customer obsessed. hnshah.twitter

Highly resonate! Last year I was trying to make a single big thing happen in the hope of turning my life around overnight. Never worked and I got burnt out instead. 

I was forced to learn that selective pressure and consistency is the only way for any real progress to happen.

well put. this cast reminded me of a similar post on X from Andrej recently

Intelligence is on tap now so agency is even more important

Agency &gt; Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are…

Andrej Karpathy

well put. this cast reminded me of a similar post on X from Andrej recently https://x.com/karpathy/status/1894099637218545984