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Wisdom from my dad and the relationship between efforts and results

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I remember how I tread the pedal and move forward. It is the hundredth time I do this and the hundredth time that I nearly fall if my father did not hold my bike.

But we try again and start from the beginning.

I tread the pedal, and the bike slowly moves. I keep my balance and make a meter, then two. At some point, this feels so good, that I don’t notice my dad letting go. I keep treading, rotation after rotation.

I smile and search for my father's eyes, but he is already 10 meters behind me.

And then I fall for the hundredth and first time.

My dad picks me up, dusts off the dirt from my knees, takes the bike, and we try again.

The Relation between Effort and Results

I am happy to announce that I eventually learned to ride a bike without any help and I don’t fall anymore (at least not very often). I don’t even think about how hard it was to learn to ride it anymore and how many times I fell. I take…