“It took me 10 years to succeed…, overnight.” 

I love this quote that I encountered in a lost magazine at a bus station.
It reminds me of 2 common illusions most achievers fall into at one point or another:

 1/The sprint does not exist.

The sprint doesn’t exist for one simple reason; What you desire the most, not an intermediate goal but your true ambition, your real quest, is an infinite game that will never be done once and for all.
You tend to it, you take it step-by-step, you expand and get bigger and better on your path, but still your journey is infinite.
The pursuit of it IS the matter.

Think a moment, when you become number 1 in your field, you discover that the game is still not over: You become your own challenger and compete with yourself to be better than you were yesterday - MJ-style.
The untold truth is that since the very beginning, you were and you are your own unique challenger. Most of the time you only realize it fully when...