“The Biggest Mistake Holding You Back in Bug Bounty Hunting: Why You’re Not Making Progress”

In the book “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck” by Mark Manson, the author tells the story of Picasso in the café to convey an important idea about appreciating effort and experience. The story is quite similar to the one I mentioned earlier, but it focuses here on the importance of prioritizing and what we should care about.

In this story, it is said that Picasso was sitting in a café drawing on a napkin. A woman noticed him and asked him to draw something for her, so he took the napkin and quickly sketched a small painting and handed it to her. When Picasso asked for a large amount of money for the drawing, the woman protested, saying, “But it only took you a minute to draw it!” Picasso replied, “No, it took me 40 years to be able to draw this painting in a minute.”

Mark Manson used this story to highlight that things that seem simple on the surface may be the result of years of effort and perseverance. The message here is that we should not evaluate the value of things based on the time or direct effort expended, but rather on the experience and knowledge gained over time. This is what the author attempts to connect with the concept of “thoughtful indifference,” which means focusing only on what deserves attention instead of everything…

Nahmsec he said : In the times that you see, like, people are finding bugs within a few hours, it’s not because the application is vulnerable It’s because these people have spent three, four years knowing how quickly to spot something that could be vulnerable to an idor or to a sequence injection to an XSS. The context of where these bugs happen is becoming like a muscle memory to us. Right?

Oh, I’ve seen this a million times. I see a webhook, instantly I go, I’ve seen this a million times…