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Dan's avatar

A synchronicity from the legendary battle rap champion Pat Stay:

"In a 2020 interview with the Canadian publication the Signal, Stay talked about his work ethic and offered his advice for aspiring artists.

“If you’re making a beat, release it and then make 5,000 more. If you have like 10 songs out and you think they are good, well, make a lot more,” Stay said. “The best people in this industry are working hard, every day. It’s a grind.”

Drum Machine Bear's avatar

It's no coincidence that this advice came at the perfect time I needed it. Thank you Vox.

If something is hard, that usually means it's worth doing. There's a reason most people give up and fail or take the easy way out. No amount of bitching is going to make the task easier. Suck it up and get it done.

Michael Maier's avatar

EMBRACE THE SUCK!

J Scott's avatar

Grind forever.

It is worth it.

Karl Schudt's avatar

Picasso had that many?

Noctua Magna's avatar

Luck = Surface Area of Opportunity × Time in the Game

420MedicineMan's avatar

Thanks that is really sound advice, the statistics seal the deal. My time will need more discipline, it's been awhile. I like your song. :)

BinKC's avatar

Most people don't see all your failures, especially when you reach success. Losers will only see the success and try to avoid doing the hard work that got you there. Winners know it's either hard work or skill and only repeated successes filter out the lucky from the skilled.

Drum Machine Bear's avatar

Even the skill is mostly hard work.

ImperialistCanuck's avatar

"Don't be a pussy" and "Keep practicing" are probably the most useful pieces of advice for Deltas, next to "Stop helping" and "Shut the fuck up". It's often very easy to let yourself become disheartened and demoralized. I wonder if that's why God hard-coded the concept of "Duty" to Deltas, as a way to compensate for our lack of the natural self-sustaining confidence of the high status men.

RobertDW's avatar

Thank you Cernovich!

Phileas Frogg's avatar

I realized a few years ago that I was letting the perfect be the enemy of the good too often, and was consequently becoming less productive.

Better to leave a good poem written, or a decent song finished than to leave 1,000 unfinished pieces of detritus floating out to the horizon because they weren't perfect.

Coffee Guy Chris's avatar

Not to mention the feeling of finally succeeding after months or years of dead-end failure is something else. The knowledge that you are among the <1% who finished the race is a wonderful sensation hard to describe.

MC's avatar
1dEdited

"Stop being a pussy" is the best advice you will ever receive from another man.

Keep that bro around you. He's looking out for your pussy ass.

B-Rex's avatar

Wait, Sigma Grindset is real?

Vox Day's avatar

It has nothing to do with Sigma. It applies to everyone. The Grind won't make you a Sigma, but it will help you become more successful and accomplished.

B-Rex's avatar

Dozens of striving influencers hopes swelled at the possible confirmation, and were quickly dashed.