&gt; &quot;I&#x27;m now further from where I started, than where I started was from where you started. So if you couldn&#x27;t even make it from where you started to where I started, how do you expect that you could have made it from where I started to where I am now?&quot;<p>That is so ridiculously built on false premises that I don&#x27;t even know where to start. But for starters, you are assuming that the &#x27;effort&#x27; (since that&#x27;s all you think it takes) to get from, say $10K to $100K, is exactly equivalent to the effort to get from $100K to $190K, or whatever. Unlikely to be true.