Pound the Stone
by Joshua Medcalf
A parable about a basketball player learning the stonecutter's lesson: a hundred blows with no visible crack, then the hundred-and-first splits it, and the credit belongs to all the ones before. Simple and motivating, especially for athletes.
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you need a story about persistence through invisible progress.
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you dislike sports parables.
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Three things you will actually use
- Progress is invisible until it is not.
- Fall in love with the process.
- Pound the stone.
Do this first
Identify your stone and commit to the next hundred blows without checking for cracks.
Our verdict
Persistence parable.
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