post 500+ times
While surfing my way down Tasshin's thoughts on “do 100 thing”, I found this line of his:
do things once, do it twice, do it 100x! and if U do it 100x, and it’s still fun—maybe go for 200x! that’s 2 do 100 thing challenges! or, why not do it 550 times! 1,000 times? 10,000 times?
I'm in total agreement that you can do the same thing however many times you want as long as it remains fun. However, allow me to shift your attention to the contents of Guy's tweet, which Tasshin linked to above:
Dan has been posting his illustrations for a while. Around 1 a day I think. This is illustration 550, and it went (deservedly) super viral.
Do things 550 times!!
Let's assume that Dan posted his illustrations daily. His 550 illustrations amounted to just over a year and a half of consistency. As for how viral his 550th illustration was, it received 617k views, 20k likes, and 1.6k retweets in a day's time. Perhaps you've even seen his illustration with how much attention it received. For context, his recent illustrations have netted him double digit likes and single digit retweets.
Witnessing those numbers made me wonder how my blog post corpus fared in comparison. What a coincidence that, after over 2 years of maintaining this writing project, I'm nearing my 550th post at the time of writing. While there are numerous people who exceed my current output and/or consistency, I'm surely ahead of the vast majority that lacks in either or both fronts. Through simple dedication toward doing things daily or regularly, you too can stray very far from the average person's results within many different creative spaces.
Better yet, I found it funny how my most popular post by far, prettiest girl today, was somewhere around my 530th post. With 140 toasts at the time of writing, it has almost 6 times the toasts as my next most popular post with 25 toasts. Yes, that's nowhere near how disproportionate the reception to Dan's super viral illustration was compared to his recent work. What piques my interest is seeing tgat we both went viral after a similar duration of time. Perhaps this pattern supports the idea that people overestimate what can be done in the short run, yet underestimate what can be done in the long run?
In conclusion, I'd love to see more people like you persisting with activities they find fun. If you're curious about how to make that happen for yourself, Tasshin's post that I linked up top is a great starting point. May your perseverance enable you to reach if not surpass quantity, quality, and virality thresholds that you never even considered in the first place.