I could see your issue being that you are alone in these things. I don't know who said it but the quote "if you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far

I could see your issue being that you are alone in these things. I don't know who said it but the quote "if you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go with others" rings true. Finding other people to build things with, to work out with, to meditate with, is one of the most important factors. When you read blog posts, its easy to feel that a person is doing all this by themselves, but I would bet that most of them have a solid network. This is why I think we are in this productivity porn era of computing, tech bootcamps/silicon valley are echo chambers for the stuff, and the people inside these ecosystems have it easy in the networking world. So make some friends who are trying to do similar things. I'm in college and can say that I'm a failure at what I'm preaching, but it will help immensely if my understanding is correct.