Short excerpt from a YouTube video (Blair Singer) explaining the fourth reason people fail: they quit too soon. The speaker uses anecdotes (gold miners) and a learning-a-language example to show that initial frustration precedes competence and many stop before the breakpoint where competence rises and frustration falls. The clip ends by pointing to a next video.
The fourth reason why most people fail is very simply because they quit too soon. Quit too soon. That's right. There's many stories about people that have worked hard for goals. Gold miners that were looking for a vein of gold, and they stopped short just before they reached the vein of gold. Now, how does that apply to you and I? Well, what happens is when we start a new project, let's say, to learn a foreign language, maybe your competency is low and your frustration is high. But we know over time, if you keep practicing, those curves will merge and cross and it will reverse. Your competency will start to come up and your frustration will come down. The problem is people quit before they get to that breakpoint. So how do you handle that next one? Next video.