Nobody is advocating wasting 10 years doing something without any indication of progress towards success. Obviously people should be looking for signs of progre

Nobody is advocating wasting 10 years doing something without any indication of progress towards success. Obviously people should be looking for signs of progress and/or success every step of the way. There are plenty of ways of doing this well before someone does or doesn’t “make it”. This concern people keep expressing over wasting many years of life for zero benefit has little basis in reality, as long as people are able to gauge their progress and build optionality into their life.