Sitting in your room and trying to find the answers is a surefire way to ruin your life. Experience will teach you what no book or even a good mentor ever could. You have to put yourself in situations and run self-experiments. What stops most people is the false belief that bad decisions or bad experiences have the power to damage you. Not the case at all. The human spirit can recover from anything. What really fucks you up is the idea that you’re too fragile. Believe that you have a thick shell and act like it.
“Time will tell” is one of the realest quotes ever because time will eventually tell who put in the work, it will tell who was disciplined, it will tell who was playing the long game. Time will indeed tell.