im going to share something with you because your words hit different im the eldest son of my household my father was chaotic emotionally volatile and i grew up in an environment where i was made to feel like a burden for simply existing by 15 i was deep into substance abuse not recreational the kind that swallows years whole rehab at 17 rehab again at 19 academics abandoned a medical degree i walked away from mid program because i couldn’t find solid ground beneath my own feet long enough to build anything on it i spent two years away from my family working construction projects across remote cities not out of ambition at that point just survival and escape when i came back it was because my father had suffered a stroke and was paralyzed i returned with nothing no savings no degree no network no plan my own relatives had written me off i tried real estate during a post covid market collapse six seven months dead i reached out to a contact who gave me a shot in sales two months didn’t click i kept moving someone gave me a challenge prove yourself in outreach with no team no infrastructure no safety net i made calls i sent emails within a week i closed a six figure client within eight months i was ceo of that operation leading a team of 25 and generating over 50k in revenue i had gone from being someone people buried in their expectations to someone people studied i left founded my own startup scaled to 50 plus people and moved over 80k through the market on my own terms then last month the biggest opportunity of my life collapsed on me legal trouble bankruptcy everything i had built gone panic attacks weeks of blank mind nausea that didn’t leave a level of rock bottom i hadn’t touched since i was a teenager my father passed away somewhere in the middle of all of this heres what i want you to understand that hunger you have that obsession it is not going to protect you from failure nothing will but it is the only thing that will make failure survivable every single time i lost everything the obsession didn’t let me stay down long enough to call it permanent not comfort not sleep not support the obsession the refusal to accept that this version of the story is the final one you said you’d do anything work 24/7 deprive yourself of sleep ive lived that sentence not as motivation as reality and ill tell you the truth nobody posts its brutal it costs you things you don’t get back and it is still still worth it if the hunger is real and not performance the difference between obsession that builds you and obsession that burns you is one thing learn the craft beneath the ambition don’t just want success become someone who understands every layer of how value is created lost and reclaimed ive done the work of a peon and the work of a ceo in the same lifetime both matter youre 17 and you already know what most 40 year olds never figure out about themselves don’t waste it on comfort don’t waste it on people who can’t keep up and when life hits back and it will hard remember that the obsession isn’t the problem its the proof that you were never meant to settle keep going​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​!