When you put yourself in a position where failure isn’t an option, it strips away the distractions on the path to success very quickly.

Joe is right that "diving in" may be a distraction from what seems like a large obligation to school.

Based on your comment about his post not going beyond his market and today tells me you must not have read the entire post...or you were distracted when you did  

As  you will learn quickly, hanging around people who have no interest in real estate is a distraction.

Don’t get distracted from that by a conversation on the next generation of returns.

"There's no way you can sleep through it, and it's extremely distracting."

The other big wrinkle here that I left out to avoid distracting from the main question: pretty much all of his retirement balance was earned in 2020.

My two tips: 1) take advantage of the search function to find threads in the forum for any questions you have (before posting/creating a new thread) and 2) regarding investment property-- clearly define what your goals are on the front end so you don't get distracted when evaluating deals (and your goals very well may change or adapt!). 

I'm going to argue (or "muse") here, that the stars have aligned, giving Jerome Powell and the Fed a clear mandate and little in the way of distraction to doing whatever it takes to beat inflation. 

The pandemic stopped me from waiting tables, so I figured it was time to pivot and go bold.I was in the process of leaving a 13-year-long relationship, and I decided a gigantic distraction might be a good thing.