When you finally get the spot, remember the person who’s where you were last year. Reach back.

The distance between you and where you stood a year ago feels enormous from above and is really quite short. You still hold the hard part to come by, which is a recent and accurate memory of the first step seen from the bottom, and that is worth more to a beginner than anything an expert offers. People twenty years ahead have lost the details. You have not yet.

So use it while it is fresh. Find whoever is where you were and tell them the one thing you wish you had known, not general encouragement. One concrete sentence about how it works beats any amount of belief in them.