Success isn’t about brute force. Push harder, hustle more, never back down—that was my formula. It worked until it didn’t. Trekking broke that illusion. You can grind your way up a mountain, but if you ignore the signs—the shifting weather, the thin air, the exhaustion settling deep in your bones—you won’t make it. Or worse, you’ll make it and regret it. Real success isn’t about suffering for the sake of it. It’s about knowing when to push and when to pause. I’ve gotten it wrong plenty of times. Forced my way through when I should have …