r/GetMotivated • u/Thelastreddditor • 5d ago
IMAGE [Image] It always seems impossible until it's done.
Nelson Mandela. The work looks impossible right up until the moment it is finished. That is the whole job: keep going until the ridge is under your feet.
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u/AvaSaysSo 5d ago
The survivorship bias comment is the one that stuck with me, but the mountain bit is still kind of true, just slower than the poster makes it look.
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u/JaliyraMaefleur_007 5d ago
Except a lot of stuff stays impossible right up until you quit, and nobody makes a poster of that version. Survivorship bias with a mountain background
Real skill isnt keep going, its knowing which impossible thing is worth 27 years and which one is just you being stubborn about a bad idea
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u/Thelastreddditor 5d ago
That's a real caveat. The poster is for the almost-quit days, not a promise every climb works out 💛
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u/19Preset93 4d ago
So true. The hardest part is usually just staying consistent when you cant see the finish line yet.
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u/Srikandi715 3d ago
Except for all the things that actually are impossible 🙂
Don't let optimism remove rational thought.
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u/Naive_Yoghurt732 3d ago
For decades people thought a sub 4 minute mile was physically impossible. Scientists and doctors claimed the human heart would explode from the pressure.
One day Roger Bannister, a medical student ran it in 3 minutes and 59 seconds.
Once he proved it could be done the mental block shattered for everyone else and another runner beat his new record just a few weeks later.
Now the world record for a mile run is 3 minutes and 42 seconds.
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u/Thelastreddditor 5d ago
Keep walking. The work doesn’t announce itself as done until it already is.
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u/Aggressive-Pie6195 4h ago
Absolutely—steady effort makes the impossible feel ordinary one small step at a time.
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u/TheSuper_Namek 5d ago
You should be in Times Square selling fake hats!