You should choose the right things to become great at. It is best if it aligns with your natural abilities or interests. Competence is highly dependent on context. If you want to be truly great, selecting the right place to focus is crucial.

The big 5 personality traits: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Our genes nudge us in a certain direction. Build habits that work for your personality.

If you are winning: exploit, exploit, exploit. If you are losing: explore, explore, explore. But even if you are mostly exploiting, spend some time exploring too. Work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you are meant to do. Flow is when you are so focused on the task at hand that the rest of the world fades away. If you are experiencing flow, you are finding it satisfying. When you feel authentic and genuine, you are moving in the right direction. When you can't win by being better, you can win by being different, by combining skills. A great player creates a new game that favors their strengths and avoids their weaknesses.

Until you work as hard as those you admire, do not attribute their skill to luck.