'The Stonecutter's Credo' is a profound parable, credited to Jacob Riis, that still hangs in the locker room of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs.
It reads:
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
There is no such thing as an overnight success. Our guest on Infinite Loops this week knows this firsthand. Here's Dan Shipper on the non-linearity of progress.
Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km3CxFRODFs
