On the path
Nov. 11th, 2025 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
posicScott D. Clary writes in Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com/scottdclarypage/posts/pfbid02sYRdCANWCb8fj9J2UMa6AmJhppcBLUAvt1s4oaAzRSnRLijYL5nqUMAYHM81fzkwl :
You're not going to go viral.
You're not going to have overnight success. You're not going to skip the line. You're going to do the boring work for years until you're undeniable. That's the path. The only path. Stop looking for alternatives. There aren't any.
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Am I undeniable? I doubt it. Nothing is undeniable, really. People's capacity for denial is infinite.
But I have been doing the work for years. And it wasn't even boring! With the exception of the peer reviewing, I mean.
You're not going to go viral.
You're not going to have overnight success. You're not going to skip the line. You're going to do the boring work for years until you're undeniable. That's the path. The only path. Stop looking for alternatives. There aren't any.
***
Am I undeniable? I doubt it. Nothing is undeniable, really. People's capacity for denial is infinite.
But I have been doing the work for years. And it wasn't even boring! With the exception of the peer reviewing, I mean.
