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by tw1010 3052 days ago
> Once you're laid off or fired once its really hard to be the super confident hacker you were at 25.

This is the point of all those self-help books about grit and things like that. Their point isn't really to accelerate your progress when you're feeling good and confident. Their purpose is to help you regain the confidence once you lose it, to make you robust to setbacks.