[Image] 14½ years! Never give up!

False, Tommy got lucky that he was so bad... This is the problem with the "don't give up on your dreams" attitude we've been fed for the last few decades. It's detrimental to success. You don't just do what's your dream. You do what you're good at, what you've gained experience in, what you have a solid plan and supporting cast to actually accomplish.

Pursuing your dream without any clue what you're doing is going to end up like this, but you won't have a multi-million dollar bankroll and a movie so bad that it actually succeeds. For everyone else, this is a recipe for disaster, and they won't be making another movie about you being a "disaster artist".

I work in the craft beer industry, where this "pursue your dream" fallacy runs rampant, because every blue and even white collared man dreams of owning his own brewery. But far too many of these venture end up being guys who don't have a clue what they're doing, no experience in the industry, trying just to make it after spending millions of their investors money (because they too just want to own their own brewery), but no solid business or marketing plan, no beers that will get people excited... And now recently, there are more breweries are closing than opening.

So by all means, pursue your dream, but figure out what the hell you're doing before expecting that you're going to become some one in a million success story.

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