Episode 37 - Patience and the Eiffel Tower

Episode Notes

In this week's episode we were drinking Player One Coffee Lab's "First Person Smoother."

Though as we noted it did NOT taste like a light roast. I was able to peel up the label on mine and found a label for a different coffee, so we think that perhaps I got two of the "Leeroy Jenkins" in the sample pack.

Patience and the Construction of the Eiffel Tower

Leuke's Notes

Gary Vaynerchuk created a $60 million dollar wine empire, but instead of blowing all the money right away, he was patient. He kept driving an older car. He lived in a one bedroom apartment. He used what he’d created and instead of living it up and blowing it all he leveraged it for even greater successes.

There is no such thing as the overnight success. Most of the time it takes an incredible amount of hard work and patience to be make it. Put yourself last and your goals first, and it’ll pay off in the long run.

Patience doesn’t have to mean going slow. It can be about executing your dreams with the right timing.

One project that must have taken serious patience was the Eiffel Tower. Even though it was built in record time, at just over two years, it was a feat of engineering and construction like nothing the world had ever seen.

Built for the 1889 World’s Fair, the Tower was made from 18,000 individual pieces. Everything was calculated down to a tenth of a millimeter for the utmost accuracy. Many of the 2 and a half million rivets used in construction were put in place offsite. Teams of four men were required for every rivet. One to heat it, one to hold it in place, a third to shape it, and a fourth used a sledgehammer to drive it home.

Patience for its own sake is meaningless, but when you combine patience with big dreams and the will to take action, we can create amazing things. The 31st is the anniversary of the Eiffel Tower’s completion.

Chad's Notes

Patience is often hard to maintain. For me at least. We’re reading Crushing It! By Gary Vaynerchuk and one of the big things he talks about is having patience. And like Leuke said there is no overnight success, but a lot of us expect overnight success in whatever it is that we do. Often it comes from one of your dreams, one of your big ideas. 

Part of the journey whether you want to start a company or learn to draw better or whatever your passion is, we want the result with no effort and we don’t learn and grow that way. If we were lucky enough to be able to be the best artist without any effort then what’s the point? You’re not going to appreciate the journey you took to achieve your passion. And that’s where patience comes in. Don’t give up on something because you don’t get instant results, it’s going to take time and learning to develop. 

The supports of the Eiffel Tower took 22 months themselves! Almost the entire construction time was on the supports of the tower. Can you imagine the amount of patience that must have taken? Mr. Eiffel built other projects out of metal. The precision and the amount of skill it took to make things of this nature and the fact that Eiffel has multiple projects he had to have a lot of patience in order to succeed at his building and his business.