Your adult life only really takes off when you're capable of willingly dedicating yourself to something.
The way western society and schooling works at the moment is to keep everyone at the child level for much longer than is needed. Needing someone to tell you what to do all the time is ideal for both children and productive worker bees.
Though I'm successful enough now, I can't help feeling that with the right motivation I could have reached this point a lot earlier.
The young guys who get solid mentoring and advice on this forum and elsewhere are on the right track.
The way western society and schooling works at the moment is to keep everyone at the child level for much longer than is needed. Needing someone to tell you what to do all the time is ideal for both children and productive worker bees.
Though I'm successful enough now, I can't help feeling that with the right motivation I could have reached this point a lot earlier.
The young guys who get solid mentoring and advice on this forum and elsewhere are on the right track.
"I'd hate myself if I had that kind of attitude, if I were that weak." - Arnold