TIME IS RUNNING OUT OF YOU.
Our life span these days is very short. Research showed that on average the life span of humans is seventy years.
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Now use this to remind yourself that you do not have enough time here to keep making mistakes and hoping to learn from such experience. Don't wait for mistakes to learn a lesson, that is why it is advisable to read the biographies of people who have become successful in the area of your interest.
You have to reduce your learning curve by always researching and learning what made those that are ahead of you succeed and thrive. There is no time in trying so hard to reinvent a difficult path for yourself, just follow the footsteps of the right people.
Read if you want to lead, and then gain the knowledge that is required to build your own empire.