You can know every rule of the game and still lose because you never asked why you were playing.

Mastering the mechanics of something without ever examining why you are doing it is one of the more common ways to lose a decade. Competence keeps you engaged and the question of purpose never becomes urgent, since things are going well by the game’s own measures.

Ask why you are in your current pursuit, and see whether the answer is yours or inherited. If it takes more than a minute to find, that is the question worth spending this month on.