How to measure your success and knowledge here is how

The smarter or more experinced you Are the higher the debt and leverage you have been taking in your life.
For example:
If you want super knowledge success and wealth and freedom.
To get this you need to borrow a lot "units "the unseens currency wich is time efforts and nervous and maybe Even your health will be given as collateral.

Now the more success you want more sacrafices you have given also your debt are higher.

So you have to pay up your debt it takes long the better your final outcome Will be the higher your debt.

Once you have reached peak and you have gathered all the knowledge and experinces then you not Even now you start paying the DEBT.

The bigger your knowledge and better experinces then bigger your debt in other words the more time you Will need to brake Even once you have braked Even and payed the debt wich Are your health money losses and maybe ruined relationship with your relatives.
Once you managed to brake Even to Zero you start building from very strong ground.

So If you see the person who's life Are so messed up it's means person had Big goals and he need to pay the debt and then brake Even and then he Will reach those goals.
In otherwords If you see some person who's life Are so messed up it means this person could be the most successful person who you know but there is also biggest risk of falling becouse high leverage are risky.

In universe everything looking For balance.

In other words the longer Are skycraper or the building the bigger deeper must be the base Under the building in order to hold it well.
So the longest building everybody will look at but they don't Even know how much digging Are Under the building If not like this then this building will fall down.

So more you want debit the more you need credit

And that's how self Made successful people Are made.