I was tricked into thinking I had “grit”
It is impossible to be really good at everything....  when I optimized for work, my fitness goals went through the window.  When I optimized to get a project done, my reading (books) went down as well.<p>When I optimized for fitness (working out and soccer), my work and side projects started progressing slower.
It is very hard to work on your project at home, when you are in a intense bulking, or &#x27;cutting&#x27; phase, and once you come home form the gym you just want to chill....<p>When I say &#x27;optimize for&#x27;, I mean that particular facet of your life becomes the more important one, and you spend more energy. Often you have to make choices: eg. social life, or project you are working on?<p>The only key I found is to be good&#x2F;focus your energy in one area at a time, while just being happy with being &#x27;good enough&#x27; at other areas.  Once you reach a desired in one area, you can switch your focus to other ones. *eg: once you reached a desirable physical shape, you can switch to &#x27;maintain mode&#x27;, and focus your energies to something new (e.g. learning a new tech, or starting a project). As gym rats say: &#x27;Maintaining&#x27; is always easier than &quot;Gaining, or Cutting&quot;.<p>It is just physically impossible to optimize on everything in your life, no matter how ambitious you are, or how much &#x27;grit&#x27; you have.<p>(eg. you can&#x27;t start a ambitious project, while having a great social life, and bulking up in the gym, while playing soccer regularly multiple times a week, and having a full time job, at the same time).