The thing you have to understand about personal growth is it's not all about self-discovery. A huge part of it is self-construction. The best version of yourself doesn't already live within you waiting to be excavated in a flash of insight. You have to build it up incrementally.

The cost of avoiding structure is more than just disorganization.

The greater expense is that your best energy gets spent re-deciding the same obvious things every day, until ambition has no budget left.

Build some rails so your effort can compound instead of evaporate.

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The earlier you skill up, the earlier doors open, and the earlier you go through them, the earlier you get access to the next set of doors.

Compound this virtuous cycle over and over and you end up way ahead of the game, which buys you time and equips you with experience that helps you figure out what game you really want to play long-term.