Hundreds Of Somethings
700 to 800 days.
A not unreasonable estimate for how many days a PhD candidate might show up to do work.
Some days might be bigger or more important than others. Some days you stare at a screen and try to work, others you punch the air and celebrate. Some days you read a whole book and others you can barely write two sentences.
What matters is that you keep going. What matters is that those hundreds of days include hundreds of somethings: actions, experiments, thoughts, conversations and opportunities that you apply to your research, your talent and your capability.
A long process of small steps that leads you to success. No two days the same. All those days and somethings adding up to a thesis and a candidate that are good.