How to be successful at anything: > be interested in a trade > do that trade, in your own way, but fail miserably > copy someone else, but it's still shitty, but it works better > get tiny results, get tiny validations, but enough to motivate you > you keep going, you keep copying, you get better results > you keep following the trend, learning the meta, iterating on your skills > keep doing that 1000 times, and suddenly... > it hits you > skills become craft > craft becomes vision > you start to understand the meta > you start seeing the world in new perspectives > you feel like you're in the matrix > things start to click > you used to understand, but now you Understand > you no longer need to copy > you start getting creative with it > you bend the rules > you question the status quo > congrats, now you're inventing > because nothing that exists satisfy your taste > now you cant stop until your vision becomes a reality > you can stop reading now, nothing you read here is going to help you be successful