[IAmWorried]

I know a few people who I would consider to be in the 10x to 100x range. It really requires the extraordinary convergence of a few RNG factors. All these people I know are the types of people who are extremely intense about everything they do - marathon runners, extremely jacked bodybuilders, etc. They generally don't waste any time with vices such as drugs, video games, binge watching, etc - instead they really enjoy coding and spend every waking minute writing or reading code because it just genuinely interests them. That's what's tough - you need to be predisposed to being obsessive about things, and you need to naturally be able to redirect this energy into computers. Oh, and you also need good social skills, because nobody will want to work with you if you're weird. I'm honestly not sure if these things can be cultivated if you aren't naturally like this. I like computers and I'm obsessive, but not enough to give up all my vices, haha.