Human Obsession with Pickles, Overnight Success & Shortcuts

For the love of pickles, learn from them!

Did you also watch a YouTube video telling how to achieve overnight success? Yeah, yeah! I’m talking about that YouTube video with over 3 million views titled ‘How to Become a MILLIONAIRE in 10 DAYS?’

Looking at the title, I have one question: is it success in the making, or your pickle pickling? Isn’t overnight success overly glorified?

(Is this what the literal overnight success looks like? and I know but let's just leave the pickle yellow!) Image Source: Microsoft Designer

Shortcuts. Shortcuts. Shortcuts. Even we have a shortcut to read — we skim through the text. [Oh, hello skimmers! (O_O)]

These shortcuts are a way to scam yourself—a fraudulent way to hack growth. Therefore, you have a shortcut to reading. But, do you have a shortcut to success? Fame? Luxury? And, tell me, do they work?

And, oh, do they also tell you to write one or two articles as your portfolio because this will potentially kick-start your career as a professional content writer? Please run. They’re fooling you. Your knife will not sharpen until you rub it back and forth on the sharpening stone.

If you are among 86% of Americans who love pickles, observe the process of pickle fermentation. The ideal duration for pickle to pickle is 7–8 days. These days the cucumber sits in the brine peacefully, patiently and turns…