My 1-year returns are 45% vs S&P500’s 15% - I’ve learnt to make better investments over time, now unsure on future strategy

It hurts because I’m still 30% down overall due to a reckless gamble at the start of my journey. It still stings, and often makes me think how I should’ve never picked stocks at all and just stuck to an all-world etf like I had originally planned.

But then I see how I’ve smashed the S&P500 this year. Big wins include chips (e.g Micron @$90), data centres, and war stocks (I saw the writing on the wall after the 12-day war last year). It’s hard to call these results luck, as I researched a lot. And even then, I didn’t pour all my capital into those big winners, it was just a fraction of what I put into “safer” stocks like Amazon and Google.

Now I’m torn over whether I should continue picking stocks given my improvement, or take my lifeline to dig myself out of the hole I made at the beginning by playing it safe from here on.

Any advice?