A first-person YouTube narrative by Kardec Trader describing the speaker's intense focus and sacrifices between ages 18–22 to build their career/earnings. The speaker recounts avoiding dinners and vacations, working ‘head down’, and practicing unhealthy habits (staying up until 4am, waking at 7am, using energy drinks) which later were seen as counterproductive to peak performance.
From 18 till 22. You ask any person in my life at that point, they did not see me. I was just head down, focus on working. I'm not going out dinners, I'm not going out to, you know, a vacation. Some of my friends at that, at the point were going to vacations, like, oh, just come. It's a week. It's this much, that much. I'm like, I can't because if I leave a week, I'm leaving my job, which I'm losing X amount. And I'm also spending. Right. So I also didn't feel comfortable at that point to be like, hey, I'm okay in taking these trips or taking these, you know, fun events, if you want to call it was just head, head down. Now some things I did wrong and I want to kind of let early or young entrepreneurs, that is, I would think that I don't need to sleep. So I would stay up until 4 and like, feel like I'm being productive and working. Go to sleep at 4, wake up at 7, start my day. Some days wake up, drink like a Red Bull or something and start my day. Yep, I felt like, okay, I'm working hard. After a few years, I was like, well, I'm an idiot. Yeah, I'm not allowing myself to be at my full potential. I'm not able to think clearly.
