What Did You Learn Too Late in Life?

My entrepreneurial spirit was fast asleep until late 2014 and it continues to take naps at the most inconvenient times. And so I learned too late…

That I could have made money selling Pokémon cards.
That I could have made money selling Yu-Gi-Oh! cards.
That I could have made money playing video games.
That I could have made money recording myself playing video games.
That I could have made money selling on eBay.
That I could have made money starting a blog.
That I could have made money optimizing other people’s blogs.
That $17 for Apple stock was pretty cheap in 2008.
That $10 for bitcoin was pretty cheap in 2012.
That $400 for bitcoin was pretty cheap in 2016.

…and that’s just money. Don’t even get me started on love.

All those times I looked for immediate returns when I should have looked for something else: potential.

So I spent my days playing games and selling my old junk and reading articles online and passing on investments to blow the money elsewhere.

I finally realized the question isn’t “What is this?” but “What can this become?”

Might be the same for love, actually.

Nik

Niklas Göke writes for dreamers, doers, and unbroken optimists. A self-taught writer with more than a decade of experience, Nik has published over 2,000 articles. His work has attracted tens of millions of readers and been featured in places like Business Insider, CNBC, Lifehacker, and many others. Nik has self-published 2 books thus far, most recently 2-Minute Pep Talks. Outside of his day job and daily blog, Nik loves reading, video games, and pizza, which he eats plenty a slice of in Munich, Germany, where he resides.