If you start at an early age, for example 14 years old, then by the age of three, you will have come most of the way to financial freedom, unlike if you started at 24 years old.
So most times, it's necessarily not about starting early, as some persons grew up from an already established background (wealthy family) so accumulating won't be a problem when the zeal is there unlike those of us that came out of backgrounds where we had to start from the scratch, how then can such persons be able to accumulate from early stage of life at 14, when even starting at 24 the needed resources to start may not be readily available.
I trust very easily and I get a good betrayal at the end.
There is nothing wrong to treat your work/family seriously but remember you have to draw a bottom line. If anybody tries to take advantage of you in whatever reason, please cut them off immediately. If not, an endless horrible life is what you'll get. I believed in good heart and being kind to all the people around me but this ideal does not work in real life. We have to know when to be an asshole in order to survive. Winners always take it all and losers get nothing.