I find it hard to read those kind of posts because they all boil down to "have a bunch of variables you have very little control over in the correct state and y

I find it hard to read those kind of posts because they all boil down to "have a bunch of variables you have very little control over in the correct state and you're pretty much set" If you're lucky enough to be born with a good wetware and an advantageous set of mental characteristics, you can tweak something here and there, build on top of it and become "successful". If you're nowhere near, there's very little you can do to change it. Take "be internally driven" for example. This shit is almost impossible to intentionally cultivate unless you're just lucky enough to be born this way. You can call it "loser mentality", but even that is ultimately defined by your genes.