We walk up a flight of stairs one step at a time. No one walks up the first couple of steps, concludes that they have stairs all figured out, and then leaps two thirds of the way up the staircase in order to reach the top faster.
We can try to skip every other step, but it’s exhausting and unsustainable.
Anything that you try to accomplish, any skill that you try to develop, can be broken down into a series of successive and most likely progressive steps. Any step that you skip in the process will result in a glaring weakness that you will have to go back and fix later. The omission and the resulting weakness will impede your progress. Once you go back and fix it, you’ll need to redo the later steps in order to get the full benefit of each of them.
The lesson is straightforward. Don’t skip steps. Don’t take shortcuts. Don’t try to skim or cheat your way through a process that cannot be rushed. You’ll end up wasting valuable time, and it will take longer to get to where you want to be than if you had simply done the right things in the right sequence.
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