You don't start by selling your soul. That's amateur hour thinking.

You start with seventeen Chrome tabs open at 4 AM. Gary Vee screaming about gratitude on 2x speed. Tim Ferriss's morning routine. Naval's tweetstorms. A Medium article about how this twenty-three-year-old made six figures dropshipping. LinkedIn motivational porn. Hacker News. TechCrunch. Your bank balance in another tab—the number you refresh obsessively like it might change through sheer will.

You start with bulletproof coffee th...