TLDR: Know your knowledge. Create your Creativity. Stay Away from Pessimists posing as Optimists.
When I hear that people who want to make money should learn how to code. This is a mythical and misleading statement. It presupposes that coding is easy. Which it isn't. And the better you get, like anything the opportunity becomes more difficult. The risk of disappointment goes up.
When I was in coding school, one of my mentors, who was always in a hurry told me, in passing, that the biggest mistake of his career was "I thought I was too good. That's when major mistakes were made." The first lesson I had after watching The Social Network is that empires can be coded in a weekend. Wrong!
Techniques if concentrated wholly can be achieved rather quickly. By moving slowly. Whenever the Blue Jays are playing, I still remember where I was when Jose Bautista hit that homerun. I was coding. When all the crushes I had were travelling the world. I was coding. When I was getting my ass kicked by a computer, most people were having the best time of their lives. I can rant on and on about this. Let's just say. Things are not always the way the seem. Especially on the Social Media.
I cannot control what other people do. But, I sure as hell can control what I can do with my time, and what my priorities are in life. The Older I get. The Younger I become. So I never really scoffed at the idea. I wasn't doing anything wrong. I wasn't building an empire. Like #MoneyTwitter likes to preach about. I am building the skillsets that can build another empire when the first one topples over.
Wisdom is the reward of working. Like anything it has its paradoxes. Such as, whenever I think I'm going somewhere. I have gone nowhere. Vice versa, whenever I think I'm sinking in quicksand. I'm on the Autobahn. Life is weird like that. But there are crucial insights here. Grass isn't greener. Never get high on your own supply. Players pay the price. Everyone else spectates. Whenever something is hard, your brain either fights to solve it. Or it flees away from it.
My dad always asked these questions such as "Who would you pick the old doctor or the young doctor?" The one with experience, or the one with the new techniques? Good question. The Older I get the Younger I become. I would have to side with the youthful techniques. As techniques used in the proper way outperform experience in this economy. Fast is Slow. Slow is Fast. As the title card states: Creativity is the knowledge and application of techniques to deliver an intended result.
Like my mentor said. Arrogance and fleeing from problems are the cause of Empires falling. Whenever you see too much of it, you know something bad is going to happen. When humans stop caring about one another, and ego trips become the law of the land, something bad is going to happen. I have faith in the North American system, from this pandemic, prices may be going up, but they are not skyrocketing by any means. There are people on the internet who really like to hammer on the West. But they never leave. Or even worse, have profited off the freedoms of the West and continue to bad mouth it. Hypocrites all. There is no East, there is no West. And the Pandemic really did prove this. One powerful country's problem is another's and it reverberates down to every human on this planet.
