I'm 66 now and from age 20 I spent my life chasing after 'ideas'. I never had success though I spent a lot of time, money and energy on projects. Most ended with some 'event' e.g. Twitter became v2, the government changed their rules/specification for something I was trying to achieve, companies went bankrupt, I ran out of money.

People might think if you were writing a program like blackjack you had a gambling addiction. I once gave a talk on a method of breakeven analysis I was trying to achieve (using gambling as an example) and my boss thought I had a gambling addiction - he came to my new home, saw empty rooms and made 2+2=5. But he did buy me a new computer to use at home.

People forget 99% of projects fail. Only one person gets the 100m gold medal at the Olympics out of the 100,000s who tried that path.