A trader must eventually reach the point of no return.
It is the stage where you have invested so much financially, emotionally, mentally, and personally that quitting is no longer an option.
I believe real learning begins at this point.
Your focus sharpens. Your discipline deepens. Your progress accelerates because you are no longer treating trading as something you can abandon whenever it becomes difficult.
Once you fully commit to becoming a trader, returning to your previous path stops feeling possible.
You have crossed the point of no return.
From that moment, you either become the trader you set out to be, or you keep working until you do.