Eric Zimmer
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And so the people in the town are starting to become kind of impressed by this.
And they're like, okay, well, here, here's a new hammer.
Here's a chisel.
Let me help for a little while.
Here's some food.
Well, eventually, the guy chisels this small little passage.
Not very wide and not very far, actually.
I don't know exactly.
Far enough.
But he basically makes a cut through, a little path to the other place.
And now people can get medical care in 15 minutes.
Wow.
And so what seemed impossible, a guy did by just showing up and doing his little bit again and again and again and again.
And I think that's a really powerful story in that regard.
I think luckily for most of them, you talk about, to your point, like the emotional payoff.
This guy had nothing until it went all the way through.
Exactly.
Now, for most of us, luckily, that's not the case, right?
We start taking positive action in our life towards things that matter to us.
We start getting benefits.