most who made it big in their 20s had early exposure through family and were already mentally invested in those skills as hobbies during their teens - when their cognitive health was at its peak. majority of you don’t come from that background. so stop exhausting yourself chasing outcomes you’re not yet ready to sustain. instead, invest your time in building the skill that will eventually take you there. enjoy the process of creating outcomes through real work. value will show up when you’re truly ready to preserve it for the long term. yes, you might catch some short-term highs along the way. but if you mistake that volatility for success, it won’t take long before it dissolves into vapor - leaving behind a wound that keeps blocking your flow in the future. and if that happens, you risk becoming someone who only holds onto the memory of making it once - desperately trying to recreate the past, but with none of the fire, focus, or discipline that made it happen in the first place.