Stay in the game long enough for experience to start working for you.

Experience takes years to become an asset. Early on it is just accumulated confusion. Later it turns into pattern recognition, judgement, and a sense of what will not work, and by then it is doing a great deal of the work for you. The only way to get it is to still be there.

Value continuity in one area over variety across several. Staying put is unfashionable and it is what makes the second decade so much easier than the first.