Frank Sinatra made 1,200 songs. Only 209 became hits — 17%.
Babe Ruth had 8,399 attempts and hit 714 home runs — 8.5%.
Pablo Picasso created around 150,000 pieces of art. Only about 1,170 became recognised hits — 0.7%.
Read those numbers again.
We have somehow been sold this idea that if you’ve been doing something for 3, 4 or even 5 years and you haven’t “made it” yet, then maybe it’s not for you.
That’s nonsense.
Especially in trading.
You could genuinely spend five years trading and still not have the results you imagined when you started. Five years of blown accounts, bad decisions, emotional trades, missed opportunities, watching people who started after you seemingly move ahead of you.
That doesn’t automatically make those five years wasted.
Sometimes those are the years where you’re building the experience nobody can see yet.
The dangerous part is comparing your timeline to someone who posted one payout screenshot on Twitter and thinking you’re behind.
Trading has humbled people who are intelligent, hardworking and extremely disciplined. It takes time to understand yourself, manage money properly, control greed, sit through losses and still show up the next day with a clear head.
And even when you finally become good, you still won’t be right all the time.
Look at the numbers above.
The people we remember today weren’t successful because everything they touched became a hit.
They produced.
They failed.
They kept producing.
They stayed around long enough for the wins to matter.
So if you’re five years into trading and the results still haven’t come the way you expected, don’t lie to yourself about your mistakes fix them.
But don’t disrespect five years of experience either.
Maybe year six is when everything you’ve learnt finally starts making sense.
You don’t need every attempt to work.
You just need to keep improving enough that when your opportunity finally comes, you’re still in the game to take it.
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Have a blessed Sunday
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