Nicolas Cole argues that people quit pursuits right before the payoff, abandoning them once novelty wears off. He uses the 1-yard line metaphor to show how early quitting forfeits the big reward. The lesson: push through the boring phase.
You have to recognize the amount of knowledge that you accumulate when you do something for a prolonged period of time. And everyone makes the mistake, myself included, of moving on because it's no longer novel. It's not fun the way that it was fun when you first got into it. And everyone makes the mistake of moving on because it doesn't feel novel, failing to realize that you are at the 1-yard line and you are about to enter the realm of, and now I get the big reward at the end. And now that I've learned that lesson, I don't do that anymore.
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