You have to accept that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.
I’m not interested in an afterlife. I’m interested in this life.
I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.