🤠 Everything is theoretically impossible until it is done

One setting where this is highly evident is competitive programming/math. People can solve ridiculously complex problems in under an hour just because they know it can be done. Solving a problem of similar complexity in an academic setting will probably earn you a PhD.

Or more precisely: knowing a good reason it can be done that others have missed.

I agree. It is no secret that the most successful startups are often started by people who are certain they can succeed.

Same as Elon Musk , saying Tesla will have a fully autonomous self driving car in a year for the past 10 years, one year he will be right !

I’d replace surprising with significant.

If it's possible, it's easy!

I go by it every day. x

Like when someone breaks a world record and then a bunch of others break that same one shortly after. Wonder how much is just the conviction part.