Eric Zimmer
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So those are more subtle clues than the six-pack abs, but they're real clues.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Yeah, strangely enough, I came across it sometime in the last few months too and I was like,
No, it's not recent.
It is not recent.
I don't know exactly when it happened, but I feel like it's like maybe my parents' generation or maybe my grandparents' generation.
It's not new.
Not at all.
Yeah.
There was a guy named Dasrat who lived in rural India and his wife became sick and he took her to the nearest hospital, which took about two hours to get to, and she died on the way.
As the crow flies, it's about 15 minutes to that hospital, but there's a ridge in between them.
And so this guy comes back and he takes out a chisel and he starts chiseling away at the wall.
And people think, what, this guy's nuts.
Okay, everybody responds to grief differently, but this guy's saying he's going to chisel through this mountain to get to the town faster?
That's crazy.
It's never going to happen.
Well, he just keeps showing up.
Day after day, he keeps chiseling away.
And slowly, he begins to make progress.