if you wanna grow a lot very quickly, you should start a company esp if you have something on your mind that you can’t dismiss easily. co building is one of the highest bandwidth ways to grow mainly cuz it compresses so many parts of life into a single endeavor.
i.e. you learn incentives, relationships, conflict, persuasion, leadership, hiring, failure, negotiation, power, trust, capital allocation, communication, & responsibility all in one fell swoop. almost every recurring dynamic in history eventually shows up in miniature inside a company.
this makes sense cuz a startup is essentially a simulator for human nature (both demand & supply). it forces you to confront what actually matters, strips away a lot of comforting abstractions (like a boss), & often gives you painful/brutal feedback when your model of the world is wrong which is what makes it such an extraordinary education.