As someone who makes stuff of pretty low quality it is obviously an interesting question, I think I have some of the answers, maybe it could help someone, or if someone tells me I'm wrong maybe I'll learn something.

I could wait until I become actually really good at something to prove my point, but that might take a while...

1. Find a good teacher, with the emphasis on the word good, many of the best artists were taught by other great artists or shared a teacher with other very good artists, this one is difficult though.
2. Find the right community, it's quite common for people famous for the same or similar things to come from the same area or go to the same school or be part of the same scene, it's not just that it's not what you know it's who you know, sometimes none of those people have particularly good connections at all. It's a lot easier to integrate into a culture and build on it than it is to start on your own; most people need other people as a source of feedback, encouragement competition, collaboration, inspiration and so on.
3. Have role models and take them seriously for inspiration, reference and motivation and so on...
4. Be honest art always carries some sort of message even if it's vague or contradictory, if it's not expressing what you really feel or like I think people will notice and it will put them off, pretensions aren't appealing and neither is complete unoriginality.
5. Be reasonably objective you have to be capable of recognising what you are doing right and what you are doing wrong.
6. Be invested in whatever you are doing for it's own sake , if you are just doing whatever you doing for money and attention it's likely that whatever you do won't be good enough to get any money or attention because it's very hard to do something well if you don't care about it, having other motivations as well is fine, probably the more motivation the better.
7. Have an overall positive and optimistic attitude, being too positive might not be sustainable or honest, but our primitive brains respond much better to positive feedback than negative feedback, being excessively negative will just cause you to lose motivation or cut your ear off or something.
8. Take inspiration and instruction from other things you know if there is something that you know and like it could be a good source of inspiration instead of copying subject matter that might have already been done to death, a lot of skills from one activity have parallels in other fields, for example they way you approach composing a tune, a sentence or a picture have more in common than you might think.
9. Give advice advice might help someone or not help them, it might even harm them, but teaching others is a very good way for you to learn, even if doesn't help the person you are teaching (maybe that applies here...).
10. Find a philosophy it doesn't have to be necessarily deep or well articulated, if you want to do something you need to justify it to yourself somehow.

Given the way inflation is going and the tendency of payment processors, banks and governments to be overly controlling, especially recently, crypto-currency is starting to look like a good idea.

Bitcoin at this point is basically a Ponzi scheme with a stupid energy consumption, ETH is about 1000 times more efficient has faster transaction time, and incorporates Smart contracts, which could well have a promising future.

It is admittedly less secure and more centralised than Bitcoin, but you cant have everything.

It's more likely to catastrophically and permanently decrease in value than normal currency or most other assests, but atleast for the next few years that seems fairly unlikely as global instability continues, it is also much more likely to drastically increase in value than other assets, which given the global circumstances and the more dubious nature of the competing Bitcoin market seems fairly likely.

As a medium term store of value it seems a reasonable bet, the long term is more uncertain, as a form of currency it is inferior in most cases to most conventional money but it has advantages that are only set to increase.

Ideologically from an anti-authoritarian standpoint it seems like a good thing to engage with.

So what am I missing?

not a lot

They failed.

2585285/85212?

555

999

Don’t talk to me about life

The city is ravaged by war.

The gates are breached, then secured, then again breached and again secured.

The Palaiologan ensign is still displayed proudly above the imperial residence.

Wherin the final emperor like his city clings stubbornly on to his life, though stricken by Turkish cannon.

The princes of that realm have deserted the city, they dress in pilgrims robes and travel with all they own upon their lonely beaten backs.

For they have the foresight and understanding to know that even now, the tides of history are turning and their land will become like an island poking it’s head above the raging waters of cruel time, that will wash over our mortal world, sending the raiders from the steppe into their oblivion, that one day they might return.

They can have representatives in the same assembly, there could be a mens side and a womens side, presidential elections don’t exist.