#31 Most of Your Life Is Spent Accumulating in the Dark — Without You Knowing It

You check the plant every morning. It hasn't grown. You check again at noon. Still the same. After a month, you stop checking.

Then one day you glance over and it has doubled in height.

Not because you stopped checking. Because the growth was happening where you could not see it — below the surface, in the dark. You were doing the same thing all along. The mistake was expecting to see it.