One old motto I've thought a lot about recently is "Practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect". When pursuing a career in video games, I thought about this a lot as if you just grind out games for 12 hours per day. You likely will hit a wall that would quickly be torn down if you just broke the problem apart and "trained". In games, this could mean watching replays to see what you could do better or hyper-focusing on one aspect of the game and accepting you'll lose games in the immediate future but when you play normally you will have become better. I think this translates a lot into what you see in my videos. I've said it before, but when I started HackTheBox in 2017, I cheated the invite code system to be able to play. I wasn't anywhere near what you see today. One of the main reasons I succeeded is because my videos forced me to. I often say videos peer pressured me into sticking with HackTheBox. However, they also forced me to reflect on every single machine I was solving. After I did something, I normally spent an equal amount of time (or more) thinking about how to explain it. Which I think was key in "mastering" the material and appearing as this expert whom has done pentesting for countless years. Even the machines I did not like, I couldn't just trash it. I had to spend time finding aspects I did like, so I could talk about that. The hunting positivity, instead of just saying it was trash I regret doing that, did wonders for keeping me sane and motivated. Well that was a wall of text. Hope ya'll have a good rest of the week, thanks for reading.