You get through the lonely chapter of life where you’re more ambitious than your old friend group but don’t have enough proof for your desired friend group by focusing on the work, not the scoreboard. The scoreboard matters, but you can’t score without first being good. And you can’t get good without first being bad.

If you want to be successful, you only need to do one thing: be proud of your work… Genuinely. Alone. At night. On your own. When no one is watching. Know. In your bones. That you gave it your all. When you do that, nothing can stop you.

How to stay poor: Think someone else winning means you losing.