Let’s say you want to be a 120 kg bodybuilder, but you weigh 60 kg right now. You watch a lot of 120 kg bodybuilders and they lift 160-200 kg for bench press. You have never been in a gym before. Would you hope to get a chest of a 120 kg bodybuilder by going to the gym and dropping 160 kg barbell on your chest? Which one is the most likely – you will get a chest of 120 kg bodybuilder or you get your chest crushed by the 160 kg barbell as soon as you move it down?

Say, you wanted to be Einstein. Your physics is at high-school level at best. You look at his biography and decided to work on the things that he worked on when he was about come up with the general relativity. Would you expect to be Einstein, or is it more likely that you will end up giving up after a week of cracking your head on the things you do not have any idea about?

Say, you wanted to be a millionaire and you have 1000 dollars in your bank account currently. You heard from some rich guy that real estate has been the way to go for them. Would you hope to be a millionaire by trying to buy and sell property with your $1K?

The point is: progress does not unfortunately come in a snap of a finger. “Rome wasn’t built in a day” is more than just a good-old-cliche. Doing X has worked great for person A, so I will do X, too. But you forget that X and A has a symbiotic relationship that you may not possess currently. Person A has enough experience and other means of support to execute X action, and the X action benefits that person upon successful execution. On the other hand, person B does not possess enough resources to execute X flawlessly, so at the end of the day they spend all their resources on X just to partially execute it, but partial execution of X turns out to have way less return than the near-perfect execution; so, person B loses all of their resources and they don’t get much in turn.

If you have a wooden stick in your hand, maybe try digging the land before mining for the gold.
– Ali Khudiyev

It is not that one plan is good or bad in and of itself. It is more like who executes that plan. Not even who, but how that plan is executed. It could be the very same plan or idea that builds a kingdom for one and shakes the Earth for another. The world is much more nuanced than white-or-black or good-or-bad. Sometimes people get a temptation to directly apply the rules that have worked for others, but what they don’t realize is that those people have built their ways to that point where those rules have become beneficial to them. Progress takes time. Quality emerges out of a sustainable and long-running process. There is almost no cheat codes here: you get as much as the work you put in. Your real worth is less about your high-school grades, certificates, diplomas, and money; it is more about your effort.

No pressure is not good. Neither is too much pressure. Controlled pressure is what leads to growth – you should try to control the pressure. Controlling pressure is not always about stopping the things around you that creates the pressure; it is more about controlling how you react to those things around you. I know, it is easier said than done. Keeping your reactions under control is also a huge part of your effort. Lastly, to link up with what I said earlier about the synergy between a plan and an executioner, a plan may benefit the executioner when the pressure of executing that plan is within the (emotionally) controllable range of the executioner.