Nicolas Cole argues that growth doesn't eliminate problems, it just trades them for harder ones. Earning $50K brings different challenges than earning $100K. The real skill is reframing each new problem as a chance to use what you've already learned.
The same way that a beginner is uncertain, if you skip forward 10 steps, that person is still uncertain about step 11. The uncertainty never goes away. The problems never go away. You just become more resilient and more equipped to solve them. This is what makes it such an infinite game, because when you were making $50K a year, you were like, I can't even fathom making $100K a year. Oh, I would love to have those problems. And then you get there and you're like, wait a second, the problems that I wished I'd had, I now have, and they're just as hard to solve. They're just different. And then you solve them. You know, you've grown a little bit beyond that. And like everyone thinks that it gets quote unquote easier and it does because you build more skills and you become more proficient. But the problems never really go away. You're just trading one problem for the next problem. The mental reframe is like, as this goes on, you're never going to reach a point where you're like, oh, all of a sudden I've crossed this threshold and I have no more problems and everything's easy. You just adopt more and more of a mindset of like, oh, here's the next problem. How exciting, because I know I've already solved the problem at each level before this. So here's the next one. You don't have to make it a bigger issue than it is.
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