When You’re in the Dip (Why isn’t this working yet?)

When I started my YouTube channel, I thought my first 10 videos would blow up. Spoiler: they didn’t.

Some got 50 views. A few got 200. I remember refreshing my stats and thinking, “Maybe I’m just not cut out for this.”

Then I stumbled across the Law of 100 — do something 100 times before judging if it’s working.

A photography professor once divided his class into two groups:

• One had to shoot 100 photos for an A.

• The other had to produce one perfect photo.

Guess which group produced better photos? The 100-photo group. Because perfection doesn’t teach you, practice does.

Because perfection doesn’t teach you, practice does.

Seth Godin calls it The Dip — that messy middle between “this is exciting” and “why isn’t this working yet?”

I’m still in the middle. And I’ve learned: mastery hides behind repetition.

If you’ve hit The Dip, don’t quit — do your 100 reps.