Overnight success
![Biz Stone quote: Timing, perseverance and 10 years of trying will eventually make you seem like an overnight success — illustrated by someone on the tip of an iceberg with a whole lot of it underwater](https://images.prismic.io/sketchplanations/b87940fa-28ec-465c-88bf-0877206574e9_SP+849+-+Overnight+success+-+iceberg.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&w=3840&q=50)
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is fond of saying:
"Timing, perseverance and ten years of trying will eventually make you seem like an overnight success."
Rarely have I heard someone so clearly articulate what it usually takes to do well at something and how commonly we misrepresent the path to success.
Sketching an iceberg in which about 90% of the iceberg is unseen under the surface seemed like an appropriate approach.
Biz Stone explains his story in Things a Little Bird Told Me.
Also see: the long nose of innovation, survivorship bias, optimism bias, Hofstadter's law, Kitty Hawk moment, starting a company, altruism and ambition
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