What Is Slowgress?

3:25am on a Wednesday (now Thursday morning), me and Stretch are blitzing down the motorway on the way back from London.

Just finished a set. 6 hour round trip for what was probably 25 minutes of us actually spitting.

Not worth it, right?

WRONG!

We knew what we were doing and we knew why we were doing it.

To be the 1% of what you’re aiming to be, you have to do things the other 99% aren’t doing.

The ROI on that trip in pure time terms was horrendous.

The ROI on that trip in terms of the hands we shook, reloads we got and collaboration and recognition which came out of it, which played a role later in the future, THAT is what the 6 hours was for.

Writing that back it seems like it was always that black and white.

It wasn’t.

It really wasn’t.

It was a risk, a gamble, a chance.

But the biggest risk is not taking a risk at all.

So anyway, we’re driving back and 6 hours with someone and its just you two, there’s a lot of topics you can cover.

Distinctly, I remember Stretch had to be up in like 4 hours by the time we returned to the safehouse.

He was explicit in reminding me 😂.

‘Bro what is it we’re doing this for I could have been sleeping man’.

(I agreed but still, it was bigger then that)

‘It’s part of the game bro,’ I said, ‘the slow progress will pay off’.

‘Ah what you mean the Slowgress?’ he replied

And just like that, the term was coined.

Slowgress = Slow + Progress

‘If we ever make a joint project, that’s what we’ll call it.’

We did just that, you can listen here.

Slowgress is the term you use where it feels like you’re going round in circles.

You’re just spinning your wheels in the mud.

There’s no signs of prospect even though people on the outside are telling you you’re moving forward.

That, is Slowgress.

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