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The timeless masterpieces that rise above the swarm of real-time media are the end result of a long and arduous creative process.
It might take 3,000 minutes (50 hours) to get the perfect 3 minute song.
That’s a 1,000x creation-to-consumption ratio.
What does that look like for an essay? That’s like spending 167 hours on a 10 minute read. Sounds crazy. I recently spent 50 hours on a 20 minute read. That’s only 150x, and it was rough. Most writers I know who feel stuck admit to only spending 3 hours on a draft. That’s like an 18x.
Maybe the way to stay sane and visible in the pursuit of mastery is to have different speeds, all cooking at the same time.
- Publish 1x efforts every day;
- a 10x effort once a week;
- a 100x effort once a month;
- a 1,000x effort once a year.