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Spirit is more important than technical skills in Bug Bounty

Most people in bug bounty focus too much on technical side of it but ignore the spiritual side completely. We can clearly that in bug bounty community. The number of questions and blog posts relating to technical stuffs, tips, tricks is overwhelming compare to the spiritual resources. The most common spirit related articles are burn-out and keep-trying-encouragement, which are just enough to scrape the surface of it. However, I believe that your spirit contributes to 70% of your success in bug bounty, your technical skill is just 30%. Maybe that is the reason why many beginners struggle to find their first bug and even give up bug bounty. They mostly focus on learning technical hacking skills, while ignoring the spiritual side completely, or don't even know such a thing exist. This phenomena is not exclusive to bug bounty or hacking. I believe we can see it in all fields if we pay enough attention. Here are some examples: The Vietnamese National Football team had no good results wh