i almost quit smart contract security in month 4 because someone i started with got their first finding before me. same start date. same resources. different result. and i took it personally. what i didn't see was that they were hunting 6 hours a day while i was still in tutorial mode. the timeline looked the same from the outside. the inputs were completely different. that realization is something i'm still actively working on shifting from watching what everyone else is doing to just putting in the hours that aren't visible yet. you're not behind the people ahead of you. you're just not seeing what they're actually doing to be there.