Going down a rabbit hole has a limit: there has to be a moment where you say this is dumb and stop, rather than keep pushing whenever things get hard.

you need to know when to stop and when to say like okay this is dumb this is not working the usual commentary and the usual belief is like you have to keep pushing man you have to whenever things get hard you just have to keep pushing and it's like no no no hold there has to be a moment where you say like no this is dumb