>>the fact that he's coding since he was a kid and spent hours upon hours in front of a screen and keyboard writing code. Stop being impressed by people who do

>>the fact that he's coding since he was a kid and spent hours upon hours in front of a screen and keyboard writing code. Stop being impressed by people who do lots of work. For every John Carmack working hours everyday and winning, there are thousands who've worked equally hard if not more and failed. Some people just get lucky, almost everybody else doesn't. Don't be impressed by survivorship bias. If you had fun playing games and hanging out with your friends, it was time well spent. If you want to work hard and build software you have whole life ahead of you and you can do that as well. But as a middle aged programmer, if I were starting out, I would put my health, relationships and retirement on high priority than putting Lines of Code as a measure of success.