Yeah, good visualizations allow us to see the slow but steady improvements.
Maybe we should do the same things in our personal lives, e.g. to make a 1m long timescale of our lives, and put there all our successes (such as “learned to walk”, “learned to talk”, “completed school”, “found a boyfriend/girlfriend”, “started a blog”, “composed a song”, “had 10000 readers on the blog”, etc.), and suddenly we would realize how awesome we are!
It’s old news but I recently came across this article and found it quite cheerful.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/10/slow-but-steady/
Yeah, good visualizations allow us to see the slow but steady improvements.
Maybe we should do the same things in our personal lives, e.g. to make a 1m long timescale of our lives, and put there all our successes (such as “learned to walk”, “learned to talk”, “completed school”, “found a boyfriend/girlfriend”, “started a blog”, “composed a song”, “had 10000 readers on the blog”, etc.), and suddenly we would realize how awesome we are!
You mean something like this?