I had a professor in university that would often say, "follow your dream, keep following it into the convinience store because that's where you're going to end

I had a professor in university that would often say, "follow your dream, keep following it into the convinience store because that's where you're going to end up." He was saying it in reference kids who would practice hip-hop dance and pursue it as though they'd all actually get somewhere with it. His advice was. "raise your bar up until it's stable and won't fall back down, then try to kick it up so that if it were to come back down, it'll stop where you left off but won't go lower." Or stabilize yourself first, then shoot for the stars that way even if you fail you can fall back to where you were before.