Working hard is like driving in first gear

“Nobody ever looks at a person driving a ferrari and thinks, "wow, they must have washed a lot of dishes to afford that car," and yet we still think "if I just wash these dishes hard enough I'll drive a ferrari one day.”
source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25049978&fbclid=IwAR0ZGFBVbcZ8xw32MHKHol2TN0x9XIKpjBgkCerUqKGwnKbr1MfdGlRjt40