[jrochkind1]

> "I'm now further from where I started, than where I started was from where you started. So if you couldn't even make it from where you started to where I started, how do you expect that you could have made it from where I started to where I am now?"

That is so ridiculously built on false premises that I don't even know where to start. But for starters, you are assuming that the 'effort' (since that's all you think it takes) to get from, say $10K to $100K, is exactly equivalent to the effort to get from $100K to $190K, or whatever. Unlikely to be true.