Dear Men,
Stay there.
The excitement that came with starting something new has faded. The initial motivation is gone. Results are not coming as quickly as you expected, and you find yourself looking around, wondering what else you could be doing.
Then a new opportunity appears; a new business idea. An emerging career path. A fresh investment. A new skill. The next “big thing” everyone seems to be talking about.
Suddenly, what you are currently doing no longer feels exciting.
Stay there.
Not because change is bad or because you should remain stuck in something clearly wrong for you. Stay because some forms of growth only happen when you remain long enough to move beyond excitement and into mastery.
Most people leave before they get there. They mistake boredom for a sign to move on, when sometimes boredom is simply the point where novelty ends and mastery begins.
You cannot build depth by consistently starting over. Mastery will remain elusive if you keep changing lanes whenever another appears more exciting. It is difficult to build a reputation for excellence when you are perpetually wearing the beginner tag.
There is value in repetition. Doing the same thing again, but better. Learning from mistakes. Refining your process. Discovering nuances that only experience can teach. Becoming so familiar with your craft that you begin to see what others miss.
That is where competence becomes expertise. Where effort becomes instinct. Where your name begins to mean something.
The world celebrates breakthroughs, but breakthroughs are usually built on years of unremarkable consistency.
Don’t always interpret the discomfort of repetition as a signal to quit. Sometimes you do not need a new beginning; you need to go deeper into what you already started.
Stay long enough to become useful. Persevere and break into the 1%.
I’ll write you next week. Think on these things in the meantime.
JACK, Sogbeye
God’s Man
