Please, read books. Not just captions, or carousel posts, or what made it to the top of your feed. Read books. Long ones. Complex ones. You cannot build a mind with weight on the back of social media ephemerals. Intellectual depth demands patience.
Having watched a bunch of peers' careers play out:
The optimal path for an ambitious person who is comfortable with personal accountability and wants to maximize risk-adjusted reward:
Go work for a small-to-medium sized, default-alive company with very high revenue per employee, run by someone who is extremely ambitious, in a role where compensation is tied to results.
you can beat 99% of people by just defaulting to action. instead of planning, start. instead of debating, experiment. instead of researching, fail. instead of waiting, launch. instead of perfecting, publish. nothing good happens from the safety of the sidelines.
Stop trying to be extraordinary at everything.
- Be ordinary at most things.
- Be exceptional at one thing.
- Be consistent in all things.
This is how you actually thrive.