Avoid intellectual unwillingness at all cost. Investigate your curiosities. Delve deep. Challenge your assumptions. Delve deeper. Build new assumptions. Challenge assumptions again. Repeat.
If a frog is put into a pot of boiling water, it will jump out… but if the frog is put in warm water brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and be cooked to death.
On a fiat standard you’re a frog in a pot.
Rather we like it or not, every relationship/friendship is a transaction. If there isn’t reciprocity… stop wasting your time. They are who they consistently show themselves to be.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but: Stick to your plan. See it through. If you’re not making progress, make a plan… see it through. Execution over perfectionism. You reach perfection from lessons learned during execution.