Working hard does not guarantee the ‘outcome’, but not working at all will guarantee ‘no outcome’.
Consistently working on something we are interested in will help us to be a little better every single day. I believe this will compound in the long run. Doing the work will help in understand ourselves better, and will give us the confidence that we can do more and in a better way.
The practice is not the means to output, practice is the output. Because practice is the only thing we can control.