No shortcuts at first, because you must take the long routes to pick out the essentials that finally form the life and work hacks. So walk the paths, smell the flowers, hear the buzz and song, see the sunbeams and the shade, feel the rains and heat. Enjoy the suffering experience, and wise down to best practices.
Remember that the most complex sophistications found upon essential fundamentals that translate to basic routine actions repeated, varied, and shifted along. Cultification, inertialisation, fossilisation, and thus extremisation infect widespread when this obvious awareness is wilfully ignored, allowed to foment, denied and gaslighted and deceived of all.
We return once more to the first pioneer, the sidelined outlier, the solo entrepreneur, who must every generation think through, anchor resolve, speak up, follow through, carry on. Who walks the trails on hard ground, the sky-paths originally in vision-space.