Comment by runawaybottle

It’s also perspective. People usually underestimate what doing a little bit of something daily actually accumulates to in a given year. Before you know it, you hit certain thresholds. It can appear overwhelming at first glance to most of us, but it’s really just a total sum of daily progress.

The perspective on this can be the shallow assessment that something is insane, or the wisdom to know it was discipline. Take your pick.