How do I become a legend?

flashbang123 · 2017-02-17T06:42:32+00:00

You know what they say, you need 10,000 hours to be an expert. There are no shortcuts to glory. The iron doesn't lie.

aftsov · 2017-02-17T01:57:10+00:00

Even with lifting. I have a better physique than most, but not one that rivals greek sculptures.

Am I just destined to be an above average Jack of all trades? That seems like boring mediocrity to me.

abdada · 2017-02-17T01:57:17+00:00

If it was easy and fast, the goal posts would just be pushed back farther.

Peter_B_Long · 2017-02-17T02:15:48+00:00

Just focus on having fun and doing your own thing. Everybody wants to be the best, but the ones who are more recognized are the ones who come up with a new skateboard trick or come up with a super catchy chorus in a song. Think 'pumped up kicks'. The singer didn't have the best voice or the best experience, but one catchy chorus and he was on all the radios for months.

max_peenor · 2017-02-17T04:00:35+00:00

Dust in the wind. I write. I do a lot of things. I do it to get it out of me. However, in the end, it's all gone. Do it because you want to express yourself. But eventually it will all be gone.

newflame97 · 2017-02-17T04:03:28+00:00

Focus on just one or two things and try to excel at them. One physical, one mental.

RedPharaohRising · 2017-02-17T05:54:17+00:00

Keep working. Being a legend is about 1% your effort now, 9% things you did in the past, and 90% things that were never in your control.

For every Lebron, there's a hundred dudes with similar talent levels who got busted for drug running, had a random car accident, or never had a scout ever come to their tournaments.

Stay humble, stay hungry. When opportunity does strike, you need to be able to 1)identify 2)have the skills to kill.

IIlllIllIIIllIl · 2017-02-17T10:25:21+00:00

Yea, how about enjoy the fucking process. You're so lost in obtaining you've lost sight of any reason to actually do so.

I do cool shit because its fun, I learn cool shit so I can use it, I meet cool people because experiences are better shared.

At the bare minimum, find some gratitude for your "superior physique." Get fat and get back to when you're at again, to find out things can be nice simply for the sake of being.

TheRedStoic · 2017-02-17T20:52:56+00:00

You can't rule out time and effort.

However you can add in discipline and planning.

Do the math, what's most likely to pay, what's most likely to get you where you want to go. Do you even know where you want to go? If not figure that out first.

Eventually we all run into the hard truth of limited time. Life is one long management of opportunity cost.

Title	How do I become a legend?
Author	aftsov
Upvotes	3
Comments	9
Date	February 17, 2017 1:55 AM UTC (9 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/askTRP
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