Something that I think is really interesting, especially while starting early career stuff, is the concept of easy successes.

As I begin to write and share online, I am also being exposed to a lot of people who are writing and sharing online–at many different skill levels and career points.

And everyone has something to sell, whether that be a course, book, newsletter, or product.

Everyone is fighting to make it somewhere.

In the scramble one particular post really stuck out to me, it was from an individual first starting out mentioning that their first tweet went viral. It’s not about this particular person at all– but a concept sparked by seeing this post stuck out to me: the presence of (too much) immediate gratification will not allow you to properly build the skills that it takes to form a long-lasting career.

Nevertheless, the fact that it might not even be true, you know. I see it as something applicable to life as a whole. Luck and good fortune create an absence of lessons.

If things are too easy for someone, there most likely won’t be depth behind it.

Not to say that life should be hard for everybody and that everyone should struggle and suffer all the time. But I can see (and feel) a distinct difference in attitude and awareness between those who have had to work for something and those who haven’t.

Being my early career where I’m trying to figure out what direction I want to take my life, observing others, and experimenting with things around me. That’s a huge undertaking, and it should be a bit of a struggle.

I think it’s important for it to be, because you’re in the process of setting up a foundation for the rest of your life. I want to have depth behind my work, and I’m going to have to earn it.

You learn more through struggle than you do through simplicity and ease. And you walk away with a greater depth to yourself as a being.

Don’t stunt your own growth by leaning into easy wins.