For non-HFT operations, I agree 100%. Weekly consistency is a pipe dream outside of that, retail or not.
If one has not achieved it, does that mean it does not exist?
Crossing the abyss from doing to Being is a different yet similar path for everyone.
Seeing the differences in things is seeing either/or sides of the coin.
Seeing the commonality is seeing and/also.
In other words, one pov is of a 50/50 probability.
Another pov, is that one has 100 certainty of an answer to a framed question.
Asking the right questions gets one on the playing field.
Asking the wrong ones, gets one lost in the subways,... without a map,.. in a foreign country,...->...etc... -> as one keeps asking the wrong questions,...
It's easy to know, because the answers to the wrong questions makes one feel bad, act badly towards themselves and act badly towards others.