Studying others gives us knowledge, but studying yourself ultimately leads to an incredible amount of freedom. - Patrick Bet-David

Your anger at others dies out once you see that no one but you controls your fate.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team. — Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn

The irony is that each time you step up, you have to start at the bottom. The king of grade school becomes low man on the totem pole the day he goes to middle school. When he finally climbs back up to the top of the ladder, high school starts and he’s back at the bottom again. Your career is going to feel similar: each time you advance, you’ll officially be at the bottom of the next level.