Thomas Edison said: Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Say that a few times and let it sink in.
Too often we believe that
the idea is the key to success and we spend our time creating ideas, telling others about it, writing about it, planning the idea and dreaming about it's future.
The idea is the golden ring. The idea will be a hit and will make riches and oodles and gobs of wealth. <insert song: Money Money Money Money!> If not wealth, whatever the measure of success,
the idea will be the provision.
But given what Thomas Edison says and many others who are successful,
the idea is only 1% of what is needed. Where is the other 99% of the quotient?
There is no explaning passion in hard work. Either others get it or they don't. When 16 hour days are mentioned or the all-night work that was needed their eyes glaze over. Unless you can crawl into the hard-worker's skin and think the thoughts, manage the ideas, make it happen, work the day-in-and-day-out grind, you won't understand it. Its hard work. Its taxing. Its consuming.
There is no substitute for the excitement of taking an idea and making it happen. Ideas are truly of little value unless you do something with it. So, if you are a dreamer of ideas. Keep the ideas coming. But do not stop short. You have 1% of the work done. Go on to the other 99% and we will call you a genius.
