Failure
Today, I failed.
Pablo Picasso produced more than a thousand paintings, and you probably can’t name more than five. The vast majority of Tim Burton’s work is a commercial failure. Warren Buffet regularly makes terrible investments. Seth Godin wrote hundreds of books, most of them miserably failing.
Turns out these people succeed because they fail way more often. They have the guts of being unrealistic and trying unprecedented things. More often than not, they fail. And try again. And fail again.
Fail often.