I picked up a Rubik's cube at 15 and two years later I was training eight hours a day, ending up 2nd in the world. Nobody taught me any of it, which turned out to be the only skill I actually needed. Everything since has worked the same way. I taught myself design, then code, then guitar, mostly electric, and I'm still bad at it in the specific way that keeps me picking it up. I dropped out of university in 2018 and started building things instead.
Being dyslexic means learning the normal way was never on the table. What I got instead was a habit of building my own route in, every time, which is slower at the start and better in the end.
I work as a product designer, mostly on design systems and core, because I'll systematize anything until the system stops working and then tear it up. I've also co-founded a handful of companies and built the products inside them, which is a different job with a different kind of pressure. Some scaled, most didn't. I'm careful with time and get more out of a day than I should. I work hard, and I quit fast when it's over.
Outside that: I want to play guitar in front of a thousand people without ever becoming a real guitarist. I lift, I train BJJ and box, and I run every week. That's the part that keeps the rest of it alive, and I'd like more of it.