I used a lot of online resources like Udemy, The Odin Project and other project based resources to further my knowledge. The most important thing was committing that I would spend, at a minimum, 2 hours every single day learning something new. Whether I was sick, or just plain tired, I stuck to that goal and continue to carry that ethic into my career (which has made me so successful so quickly).

Basically, I had grown up in trailer where we stole water from the neighbor and ran our electricity from an inverter off my stepdad's van for 2-3 hours/day for most of my teenage years. I had a lot of time to consider my life and position that I knew it would take a monumental work ethic to break the cycle and do more than my family had done.

It wasn't until my non-verbal, autistic, son was born that I really felt that motivation that I would have to get my ass in gear to even stay afloat. Even now, he keeps me up until 3-4AM reciting the multiplication tables (which we are literally doing now) and other random items, but I grind to save money so that he will have care when I'm gone (and a life while I'm still around).

I make a shitload of money by normal standards, but I probably look like a disheveled failure to most people. I'm just a normal dude who decided that my life mattered more than myself and is grinding for his kids.