The worst that can happen to a young prodigy is the fact that he achieves something great too young without a mentor.

Admittedly, "great" can also be subjective, so that accomplishment may not really be that grandeur in the eyes of some, though.

Worse than that is the surrounding of people who do not have any skin in the game of the prodigy, but are also available to give advice on what to do next.

They don't do anything other than creating noise. It would be a different matter if the prodigy truly wanted to become like them in a certain sense. But, not.

What happens next? We go astray. We lose the signal. We are just like a paper plane floating in the middle of a river.

We think we are the best, assuming that the world is a pond on our palm, but we don't even know we per se are drowning in a bigger water in this "little world on our hands".

Let alone this. Achievements often give us too much confidence. So much so that they blind us to believe that we can do anything we want (in an ability sense).

This destroys focus. Unfortunately, we are not Elon Musk enough to focus on multiple projects and still become a trillionaire.

They could also make us complacent like a hare in The Tortoise and the Hare of Aesop.

A complacent man is a dead man. You can't say "I've won" until you're there in your final destination.

And no, that final destination is not in this world, either. So why complacency?

Too much of anything is unhealthy. That's why it is recommend to find the golden middle in our religion, too.

But I myself am a big culprit of taking certain things to their extreme just for fun. Yet I also understand that it just inflicts harm on thyself.

If you're young and think you're smart, find a mentor. Stick to him/her like a leech.

Forget about your achievements, whatever they are. The past is long-gone. What are you working on now? Talk about that.

Heed your mentor. Don't get lost among the noise.

Farewell.

Solief

@temursolief