it's not a skill issue but a leadership issue. people do leetcode all day not bc they wanna do it but bc they don't know what else to do with all the skills and time they have. "i've got to be doing something, right?" they learnt a skill but have no vision or idea about what to create so they either resort to getting a job where they are told what to do or solve fruitless stuff all day (not really fruitless since it does make you better but you get my point) keeping themselves busy. motion isn't progress. if you have the skills but don't know what to do with it, you will obviously look for someone who can tell you what to do. someone who has a vision. they say steve jobs didn't know tech (he did) but his leadership overshadowed his tech/mech skills. more than hard skills, he contributed in terms of giving skilled people a vision to have consensus upon. take even elon for example, while some critics say that he does not have much of technical skills (i disagree), my point is that his leadership overshadows his skill and so people underestimate his hard skills. or even take @levelsio for example. ships all day. now if i'm being honest, the products do look sloppy but hey it makes him money and one of the products has to succeed to overshadow the others. learnt a skill. knows what to do. perfect combo. anyway, point being... if you keep yourself busy all day overachieving stuff, you will never find the time to look for something better. maybe a vision. maybe an idea. it requires some creative time. it requires you going on long walks. maybe it requires smoking grass too. who knows. you learnt all this to build something. and now that you've learnt it, you don't know what to build so you resort to other people telling you what to do? stop. go for a walk.
