Do you understand the word progress is related to time?
N: forward or onward movement toward a destination.
V: Progress; move forward or onward in space or time.
So what is it you're struggling to say here?
Maintaining progress is the goal. The longer you maintain the more successful you are. If you never applied this to your life, it's bold to say you've been short of success on any attribute you've attempted on.
Firstly, people get awards ALL the time for something they did WELL for a long time. Hall of fame, memorials, etc. Stop living under a rock.
People remember you for being good for a long time. It's called having a career, did you ever try any of this in real life or are you still trying to use physics in comics? lol
Sigh...
First, let me preface this with you are an idiot. Ok? Ok.
Second, you can do a half-ass job for 50 years and it means less than someone who does a perfect job for 5.
You can do something for a long time without progressing at all. Its called stagnating. Puddles do it, and apparently your intelligence took the same route when you hit the age of 3. Time doesn't make someone a better player, I could spend 5000+ hours in training mode and it wouldn't make me a better player because my progression isn't as good as someone who goes to tourneys for 50 hours and achieves more.
Third, people remember you for being good. They don't think "Michael Jordan played basketball for 15 years, he must be good." They think "Michael Jordan has x number of MVP rings and accomplished Y during his career, he must be good." You can get some kind of fame for being good for a long time, sure, but that doesn't come unless you're good in the first place. People base success on how far you've come, not how long it took you to get there.
Lets take arguing for example: You can argue with me for a long time, months and even years, but that doesn't make you any better at it or any less of an incompetent boob. I, on the other hand, can argue you well for about 5 minutes and make more progress than your years of pointless idiocy. You can't give me one example of someone who received an award for doing something without them doing it well, and that alone proves my point. Success isn't based on how long you do something, its based on you getting something done.
Now then if you're done derailing the topic, you can go sit in a corner somewhere and contemplate how much of an ass you've made yourself out to be.
