Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don't lead to happiness.
Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.
Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find the people who care. Those people are worth all of your time.
All Marketers are liars tell stories.
The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?
Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.