[zubairshams]

People who seem successful from the outside, are in general, very hard working and focused in their venture. I have few friends from high school who always got good grades and understood topics very fast. Being around such gifted students made me feel insufficient. I could never compete with them no matter how hard I tried. In my mind I was trying hard. Turns out, while I was slicing my waking hours between sports, hanging out, studies and socializing, they invested all those hours to study class materials, read supplementary materials, reading ahead for the class next day. To me, sports, studies and friends were equally important while they kept single minded focus on where they want to put their hours. It also turns out, the method is replicable. You can put single minded focus on anything and be reasonably successful. I believe it. Because I have seen it happen in my life. Albeit, there are talended people and hard work will always fall short of talent + hard work. But hard work will get you far enough.