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Jake Burhans says success isn't linear. Real progress looks like long stretches of nothing, then sudden breakthroughs, then flatness again. Recognizing this pattern helps you survive the plateaus.

Jake Burhans says success isn't linear. Real progress looks like long stretches of nothing, then sudden breakthroughs, then flatness again. Recognizing this pattern helps you survive the plateaus.
I hate that nobody tells you that getting better feels like you're getting worse. We think that success works like this, right? We do a little bit of input, we get a little bit of output. It's a perfect little 45-degree line. That is not success. Success is this: no results, then results out of nowhere, and then no results again for a long time, results out of nowhere. So if you can understand that, you can get through that flat part, you will be unstoppable.