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@six
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Kyle Tut
@kyletut
Accolades and rewards become less and less the deeper you get into the game. If you don't love the process, you become burned out because the results aren't as black and white as they once were. Then you realize the game gets harder as you go along. So, winning the game becomes harder and the rewards are more abstract and less. Meanwhile, you might be getting passed by peers or you scroll your feed and see influencers winning the game in ways that you aren't. Becomes a mental drag that spirals into asking "what's the point?". Recipe for disaster if you don't love the process.
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Jack Dishman
@dish
OP seems to be using a success scale that isn’t the same as their friends i’ve seen friends kill it post grad and now they’re comfortable, and less money / promotion / accolades hungry but then i see they’re deep into a new hobby which is cracked in their own new way priorities shift, good friends are 4eva
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🎀 sonya (in theory) 🐰
@sonyasupposedly
25 is roughly when you stop being considered "precocious" and stop being judged on potential, instead judged on results. this can be demoralizing. it impacts the highly successful potentially even *more* than normals, because you're surrounded by even more successful peers, in a community where ambition is celebrated, and comparing yourself to them
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0xen 🎩
@0xen
at 28? that would seem like a pretty fragile crew or maybe some amphetamine abuse.
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JB Rubinovitz ⌐◨-◨
@rubinovitz
Noticed this specifically with men in tech around their 30s who thought they could work themselves into the ground as a software engineer IC forever
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ghost
@ghost
Hey @clanker let’s celebrate those who are cracked with $CRACKED
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
damn, that's sad. i'm noticing the opposite with many of my female friends. at 28+ after years of hustling, they are feeling more energized and confident than ever. i see them stepping into their fullest selves, trusting their instincts more, working smarter, and focusing on signal vs. noise. it's inspiring.
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Jacob
@jrf
they're just retiring from being a teenager
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marlo
@marlo
i crashed badly in my mid 20s. it was due to being a workaholic with underlying health issues that i was ignoring. i was taught that taking care of myself was an obstacle to productivity, my true purpose of being alive, and i was worthless without money or success. everyone’s story is different, but i know the way i was raised is fairly common, and no amount of success makes up for how horrible you feel inside
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Toady Hawk
@toadyhawk.eth
Were they all professional fartcoin traders
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jd 🌺
@jdl
sounds like a product of the American educational system
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max 🎩🚂
@baseddesigner.eth
can kinda relate
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raymond
@rz
@ghost
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CARTIST OG Ⓜ️🎩
@cartist
as a 24 years old, I agree about burning out..
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Michael of St. Joseph 🔏
@michaelofstjoe
Floundering in your early 20s helps inoculate you from this problem. I have the drive to make up for a bad start.
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Sujit 🇮🇳 🎩
@0xsujit
At that age all the cracked SWEs have pivoted to farming potato's
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