I don't really vibe with "follow your passion" or "believe in yourself" type advice. It sounds good on a poster. It doesn't actually help when things get hard.
But there are two people — one fictional, one real — whose mindset I actually think about.
The first is Bakugo Katsuki. He's the rival in My Hero Academia, and in most stories, the rival is the lesson — the cautionary tale who flames out because he wanted it too badly. But Bakugo doesn't lose the plot. He stays at the top. He screams about being number one and then goes and does it. What I like isn't the arrogance — it's the clarity. He knows exactly what he wants and he never lets himself forget it. Not for a second. I want that kind of clarity.
The second is Stable Ronaldo. If you don't know him — he's a Twitch streamer who was huge, then became basically irrelevant, and instead of pivoting or reinventing himself into something else, he just kept going. Same thing. Every day. And then the numbers came back. Bigger than before. He didn't need the validation to keep working. That's the thing I keep thinking about.
Right now I'm building. Some days nothing moves. But I've got a clear picture of where I'm going — and I'm not changing it just because it's taking longer than I thought.
I want to make my family proud. That's not poetic. That's just the actual reason.
Anyway. Back to building.