Ask yourself two questions.
What kind of game do I love playing?
What kind of game can I play all my life?
Find where those two answers overlap. That's it. That's the whole thing.
Because here's what happens when you find it.
You show up every day. Not because you should. Because you want to. The work doesn't feel like work. The hours don't feel like hours. You're not waiting for the weekend or the exit or the retirement.
And while you're busy enjoying it, something quiet happens in the background. Time compounds. Skill compounds. Reputation compounds. Relationships compound.
Ten years in, the rewards aren't big. They're incalculable.
Most people miss this because they split the question in two. They pick a game that pays, and hope they'll learn to love it. Or they pick a game they love, and hope it'll pay. Both fail. One burns you out. The other starves you out.
The trick is refusing the split. Keep looking until you find the overlap.
And when you find it, the reward isn't what waits at the end.
The reward is every single moment of the path.
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