The summer after I graduated from high school, I worked at a cafeteria table making factory in Minneapolis. A bunch of friends and I were doing it since the job paid well and we all needed the cash for college
There were two sides of the factory: making the parts and assembling the parts.
I was on the making the parts side.
So I would show up everyday and there would be a bin of thousand pipes that needed to be bent thirty-three degrees. Or a bin of fifteen hundred metal discs that all needed a hole punched in the middle.
Every day I showed up and every time I looked at these giant piles I thought there is no way on earth I’m ever going to make it through that entire pile.
And you know what…every time I was wrong.
I made it through all of them.
My eyes and brain thought I would never make it through, and I made through every time.
Just because I couldn’t see the success happening didn’t stop the success from happening as long as I kept working.
Sometimes you can’t see your way so you have to stop and wait for the fog to lift.
Sometimes you can’t see your way so you sprint as fast as you can until you’re not in the fog anymore.
The second one is takes a lot longer to learn and discern.
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