Getting lucky once doesn't require any principles. But to succeed over and over—once, twice, three times, and so on, in the long run—you do need principles.

That’s why you can’t stress enough how important it is to be stoic, have the fluctuation as low as possible, and stay resilient.

And that’s also why you need to find the true source of your grit.

And it seems like it’s just inevitable to wander, get exhausted, get hurt, and fall into this deep pit of strange emotion you’ve never felt before in that process.

Finding the correct answer in your first shot is almost impossible, so you just need to keep going through multiple trials and errors to finally get there. (Without knowing how many)

That’s why there are so many failures laid behind one single success.

That's why you need to deeply understand what truly matters to you—what you're willing to sacrifice for what, and what you must hold onto no matter what.

It's crucial to focus on yourself, understand yourself deeply, and be brutally honest with yourself.

You can't whine and complain just because the decision you made comes with difficulties, which is only natural.
A decision always comes with its price and responsibility.

The more hesitant we are, the more essential it becomes to adopt a "give it a shot" mindset. If pursuing a choice doesn’t involve significant losses, why not just go for it? After all, you might not have as much to lose as you think.

Encountering this concept made me realize the importance of adopting a "why not try it?" attitude. The examples listed by James Clear aren't entirely new—they’re things we’re already familiar with but often hesitate to act on due to laziness or fear.

This idea gained significant traction when James Clear, the author of *Atomic Habits*, mentioned it on Twitter in 2018, which went viral.

James cited examples like writing a book, investing in startups, and stock investing as asymmetric opportunities.

But this process is inevitably slow. It requires deep thinking.

Our lives are too precious to sacrifice it to speed and quantity. This is also why we must constantly ask ourselves questions. Without good questions, our thoughts cannot deepen.

We were always told to learn faster and memorize more than others. From my direct/indirect experiences, it seems that our education basically ends there.

However, as the sole owner of our own lives, training to focus on our inner selves is absolutely necessary.

Through the education we receive from elementary to middle to high school, we are taught basic knowledge to survive and thrive in society, along with training for further education. After entering university, we receive career training to secure better jobs.

(Having born and raised in Korea, my answer is no)

Sure, gaining knowledge and skills are crucial. But I think it shouldn't end there.

Have we truly been trained through the multiple years of education to become better individuals, to focus on our inner selves, to deeply explore ourselves, and to establish our own value systems?

When we become impatient and anxious, we enter "survival mode."

In survival mode, our brains are incapable of long-term and deep thinking because immediate survival becomes paramount.

We are trapped in chronic short-term thinking. We are stuck in chronic impatience and anxiety.

There's no time to contemplate which direction to run, or even if you should run at all, or what's really happening right now. Would it be too much of an exaggeration if I say that we live in such an era?