There’s nothing wrong with being 28 and still living at “home” (lmao like where else does a human being live if not at some idea of home?). This whole idea that you need to graduate college, get a good job, climb the ladder and be successful is a completely arbitrary fantasy. Live the life you want to. Self motivate for sure if it gets you to the goal you decide on, but don’t buy into this idea that high school isn’t where real life begins, or that university is. Nobody really knows what’s going on, least of all some rando redditor (yes, including me).

Focus on the people in your life that deserve attention, get out and have experiences, make mistakes, go into debt, remember to check the mailbox, work part time minimum wage, push your asshole uncle who kissed ass until he was upper middle management into a lake because he keeps making your dream job a joke at family functions.

Life is a game where everything is made up and the points don’t matter, which includes the “money = success paradigm” of capitalist culture just as much as the opinions of assholes who make it their life mission to let you know what is and isn’t important to living a good life (such as letting a good standardized test score make you “complacent”).

The bottom line is that even if you do want to follow the general guidelines to living a “successful life”, that only means as much as you decide it means. Even multi-billionaires think the grass is greener and kill themselves, even those who perceive themselves as geniuses can run a country and cause absolute chaos, and even those who have nothing still find joy in being around those they love. My advice to OP is to ignore everyone here and go do the things they want because we’ll all be sharing electrons in the dirt soon enough.