There is a time to go and a time to stick.
A time to listen to your gut and a time to leave well enough alone.
In a now-famous commencement speech that Roger Federer gave, he talked about the percentage of matches that he'd won in his career ( over 80%) and then described the amount of points that he won over his career (just over 50%)
If you play the long game, you only have to win a little bit more than you don't, you only have to go a little bit more, then you stay.
The tennis player who has a 100% win rate doesn't win for very long.
The long term is about building slowly and strongly and professionally and being prepared to stay with it.
Sometimes you're ahead, and sometimes you're behind. If you just make sure that you're slightly ahead more of the time than you're not, then as the decades pass, you win.
Blog Post Number - 4409
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