The fastest way to get ahead is to get obsessed for 1 year. Pick a skill people pay for. Get extremely good at it. Build proof that you're good at it. Create content about it and put your proof online. Iterate until you get it right. That's how you can change your life in 1 year.
Real books change your very psyche. Not just self-help books. But the long, soul-altering books. The Brothers Karamazov. The War and Peace. The Crime and Punishment. Moby Dick. In Search of Lost Time. Writers who understood loneliness. Meaning. Human suffering. The chaos inside our minds. Writers who sat alone with their inner darkness so that one day you could read it and feel less alone in your own. They change the way you see people. They expand your perception. They upgrade your consciousness. That's what real books do. They alter you.
If you’re a beginner trying to break into Data Analytics, here’s a simple roadmap I’d recommend:
1. Learn Excel
Start with formulas, PivotTables, charts, lookups, data cleaning and basic analysis.
2. Learn SQL
Understand SELECT, WHERE, GROUP BY, JOINs, CASE, subqueries and aggregations.
3. Learn Power BI
Learn data cleaning, data modelling, DAX and how to build useful dashboards.
4. Learn basic statistics
Understand averages, percentages, distributions, correlation and how to interpret data.
5. Build projects
Don’t just watch tutorials. Work with real datasets and solve actual business problems.
6. Learn to communicate insights
Don’t just say “sales increased by 20%.”
Explain WHY, what changed, and what the business should consider doing next.
7. Build a portfolio
Document your projects on LinkedIn/GitHub and show your process, not just the final dashboard.
8. Start applying
You don't need to know everything before applying.
And honestly, you don't need Python at the very beginning.
Get comfortable with Excel → SQL → Power BI → projects → business thinking, then add Python when you’re ready to expand your skills.
Learn → practice → build → share → apply.
Become dangerously educated. Be well-learned. Be harder to fool, sharper in conversation, and better at reading situations. Draw on centuries of knowledge and wisdom. Learn relentlessly. An informed mind is hard to manipulate, intimidate, or contain.
Hot take:
It’s easier for fake friends to be there for your bad times than your good times.
It’s easy to have pity when you’re doing better than someone. It’s much harder to keep wishing them well as they beat you.
Your entire life changes the moment you realize you have main character armor.
You're going to make it through every hard, insane, surprising thing the movie of your life throws at you except for one: the end.
So you might as well dream big and shoot big because you're going to make it through, no matter what, except for the one time you don't.
And the moment that happens you don't have to watch the movie anymore.
Control your ego when you’re winning.
Control your thoughts when you’re losing.
Stay humble in victory and faithful in defeat.
God’s lessons are in both.
The brain is designed to learn through constant repetition and active, hands-on involvement.
Through such practice and persistence, any skill can be mastered.