Understand this ASAP: your career is just like a jackfruit tree

Fernando Cosenza
2 min readMay 10, 2020
Jackfruit is the largest tree fruit in the world.

Imagine from your room you can see a nice garden through a big window. Every day, before going to bed, you contemplate the garden. You stare to the green grass, to the small plants and some beautiful flowers, and then you close the window, turn off the room’s light and lay down to sleep.

Every following morning, you wake up and open the window. Because of that, every day the first image you see is your garden. You don’t really pay much attention to it. After all, it must be just like it was the night before.

You repete that ritual, night and day, for years. Then, in one regular morning, you open the window and see a 70 feet jackfruit tree in the middle of the garden. You get very confused. How could a huge tree just appear, out of the blue, in the middle of your garden?

Jackfruit is the largest tree fruit in the world. It takes around 4 years to grow and each fruit can weight up to 120 pounds. The tree can produce fruits for 100 years.

A mature jackfruit tree just can’t appear like magic in your garden. In order to have one there, you must plant a jackfruit seed, cultivate it for years and be pacient. If you plant an apple seed, you never get a jackfruit tree. If you don’t take care of what we have planted, it does not produce any fruit.

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Fernando Cosenza
Fernando Cosenza

Written by Fernando Cosenza

Researcher, professor, investor, CVO.

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