This reminds me of the book I read when I was 17, life-changing book. Its called Code of the Extraordinary Mind by Vishen Lakhiani
The whole premise of the book is to follow and do shit you love doing.
Use it as your internal compass. Cause it never failed me ever.
Following your intuition and what you love doing despite the short term distractions in your path is the hack man
Giving up the short term money for the long term? Will pay off 100X.