This is not advice. I'm not sure this is a topic on which, frankly, advice can be given.

This is not advice. I'm not sure this is a topic on which, frankly, advice can be given. Some people have you ever noticed, seem to hit all green lights. It's like they exist in a separate, parallel but intersecting world to ours with slightly less gravity, like a personal Venus. They can come sailing into this tremendously competitive field, something that's famously a grind for which you must suffer. And it just comes easily or seems to come or seems to come easily. And coming easily is not the same thing as not working hard. Because these people do work tremendously hard, often times a lot harder than all the people who are angry at them. Because let me tell you, transcendent excellence really pisses people off. It pisses people off because you're operating by a different set of rules. You seem to break that everyone else needs to follow. You know, parents spend hundreds of thousands of dollars putting their kids through these tremendously competitive youth sports, travel teams, whatever, and they're told they have to specialize. But a really, transcendently excellent athlete doesn't specialize and can go to the Olympics in multiple sports. You know, people try so hard to become famous models, but actually, the face of the year was just on her way to class, like, on the subway. You know? I mean, K-pop, ice skating. This is what transcendent excellence looks like. Transcendent excellence is you're pursuing something higher and beyond what is. And so you end up at what they were aiming at. Meaning the kids who get the most out of going to Harvard weren't desperate to get into Harvard. They were just really, really freaking interested in a specific field and thought, oh, you know, there's actually a pretty good lab, I do feel like that would be a reasonable next step to pursue this true passion of mine. And they end up at Harvard. They weren't obsessed with going to Harvard. The people who really not just get, but succeed in high prestige jobs, they took those jobs because that was an activity that they wanted to do. There was a practice or a craft that they wanted to excel in. They weren't just trying to become, you know, like, whatever position it is. Often the people who build generational businesses were not in it for the money. The people who become the most famous in a creative field were genuinely pursuing artistry. But the reason I say this is not advice is because I'm not really sure there's an applicable lesson to take away here. I actually think it's very interesting how we love to watch interviews from transcendently excellent in their field and they often say this stuff that maybe is not good advice for the average practitioner. But of course, if you and you would know who you are in the quiet of your own heart in the dark of night, know that you do have transcendent excellence within you. There's a pattern for you to look to, and you do not have to follow the rules that everyone else does.