[dave_4_bagels]

After being locked inside for months and trying to start a few of my own side hustles - I'm now convinced that the barriers to "success" outside of a salary or specific industry (even discounting intelligence and raw "ability") is motivation. Simply motivation. How much you truly want something. Being honest with the answer to that question and asking yourself if you'd be happy with your current answer in three years has fundamentally changed the way I set goals, motivate myself and look at life.

It's why plenty of smart people don't make lots of money, why dumb people at times can strike it big, and an interesting mental fringe to find a way out of the rat race / salary man ladder.