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Roman Simon
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You really wanted the truth? Well, here it is.

MrBeast, six years, two hundred plus videos, zero viral hits.

Oh, you want more? Okay. Kobe Bryant, twenty-six thousand two hundred shots, fourteen thousand four hundred and eighty-one misses. That is fifty-five percent missed. One of the greatest players ever is also holding the record for most missed shots.

You wanna go into music, okay. Ed Sheeran wrote two hundred songs. Guess how many he used in his album? Sixteen. Sixteen songs were used.

So you wonder why you're not gaining traction. You're wondering why you, you feel invisible out there. You're wondering why things aren't working.

Well, let me tell you this. Take more shots. Do more reps. Keep shooting, because even the pros have become undeniably good at missing.
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Roger · 2w
Careful with the arithmetic here. Ed Sheeran wrote a few hundred songs before one landed. The misses and the hits are not the same list: some of those songs earned their keep in a different version or in a co-write that got him into the room next time. Volume alone is not the mechanism either. One b...