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by spikey_sanju 567 days ago
This is the whole point of the post...

Success rarely comes from what we aim for—it’s often about timing & flow. Perfection can hold us back, but staying open leads to breakthroughs.

Few irl examples:

1. Spend hours perfecting a video, 100 views. Post a raw clip, and it goes viral.

2. A polished product flops, but a scrappy weekend tool takes off.

3. A masterpiece gets ignored, but a casual sketch goes viral.

4. A failed dish turns into the next food trend.

Don’t wait for perfect. Keep creating, stay open, and let the unexpected happen.

P.S. Success is personal. But if you aim for something and it doesn’t happen, that’s a failure in that context.

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lol, your "irl examples" are fantasies, made up on the spot by you to support your own made-up claim that "Success rarely comes from what we aim for". You should at least google some of the existing but exceedingly rare examples so your claims are not just hot air.
Made up? Hardly. I hear you, but reality isn’t as tidy as a research paper. Planning only gets you so far; timing and luck do the rest. IYKYK!