Jared Goetz maps effort against progress and shows why most entrepreneurs fail. Early work looks flat or negative before compounding kicks in. Knowing this pattern exists is what separates people who quit from people who break through.
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What I'm about to share with you is extremely powerful for new entrepreneurs, and it's been a complete game changer for me in times where I didn't think I'd be able to make it through. So I want to share it because it's something that if you understand, it can be the difference between success and failure. So check it out. So I have a simple chart here that shows on the bottom how much effort or time you've put into something, and on the other axis, it's how much progress you've made on that thing so far. Now, as humans, we're programmed to believe that if we keep putting in effort or time, we should make steady progress upwards. But in actuality, in any business endeavor, when you get started, at first you either make some negative progress or you're kind of flat, but your efforts start to compound on themselves, and eventually your outcome exceeds what your expectations are. Now, the problem is that this area right here