Izzy Kiver spent a decade building the ability to organize business systems, a rare skill he calls a lethal weapon for startups. He argues that committing to your hardest pursuit, figuring out how to sustain yourself through it, and accepting setbacks as part of the path is what separates people who actually build things.
Find the most difficult thing that you can do and go for it. Don't look back. Figure out a way how you're going to sustain yourself, how you're going to subsist and keep after the dream. In my own personal case, it's been over 10 years that I've been pursuing the dream, the idea, the passion of starting up entrepreneurship and what it's done for me is it has made me a lethal weapon when coming into any startup, coming into any business. Now I can organize business systems like very few people that I know. In your case, figure out what is it that, what is that thing that you really want to become great in, truly thrive in, and do not quit, no matter what. It is so tempting to give up. It's so tempting to just let go of the dream and let go of what you were pursuing. Things happen in life. People get sick, people will fail you, people will betray you. These things happen and that's okay. The most important thing is to keep your vision in mind. Go after that lowest version of yourself that you can accept and raise the bar continuously. Push yourself and make sure that you understand what success feels like, what success looks like. This can only happen when you fix your mindset. When you put yourself in situations where other people are successful, you put yourself in the situations with people who are pursuing success and pushing harder day after day.
