Two speakers argue that people in their early twenties should stop obsessing over immediate results and instead focus on consistent learning. They use a gardening metaphor: plant seeds now, measure success around age 30 when compound growth kicks in.
If you're like 22, 23, you're smart, but you chose not to go the traditional path that feels right. But then you also just get these like hunger pangs of like doubt. You're doing the right thing every day. You're just making stuff, you're trying stuff, you're making content, you're having a blast with your buddies. We're going to measure the scoreboard when you're 30, not when you're 24. That was the game changer advice I wish I had and that I gave them. And maybe 35 or 40. Like you're planting seeds. Don't go dig up that seed the next day and be like, shit, this didn't grow into a plant. Like, no, Plant that seed, water it, enjoy it. Let's look at this as a 10-year game. The fourth quarter is 10 years from now.
And the seeds that you're planting, it's shit, it's shit, it's shit, it's shit. And then suddenly it's like, oh my God, it worked.
Right, it hits. Your learning does go up every year where you're like, oh man, last year I was such a dummy. I didn't know shit about shit. And now I know better how I would do this. But your results can kind of stay flatlined for like a decade before it actually stops being a flatline and just like curves up rapidly.
