We have to choose the right pieces and get them together , if we choose them wisely we will have a dream life and if not it will be full of dislocations and struggles!
Main parts of this puzzle are study, proper job , marriage, smart housing move and retirement plan! We shall Live like economist and study each step economically.
But it's the hardest thing to do, as per Oprah, one of the wealthiest women in America,
"the difficult part in life is making the right decision" (or something to that effect). And this is true, and we really don't know if we made the right decision or not. So we should really think of our decisions right now because it will have a good or bad consequences in the future.
Take for example crypto investment, at least for me I discovered it in 2017 and the good thing is that I continue to stay through, learn many things are far as investments goes and now I'm enjoying some of the fruits of my labor for me and my family.
And I agree, life is not a video game in which you get immediate feedback about whether or not the decision that you took is the correct one, most of the time you are not going to discover this until many years have already passed, in which case it is even more difficult to change your life to remedy your mistake.
This is why you need to have the ability to think long term and think what kind of effect your decisions will have and whether or not that is what you want.