As boring as it sounds, most of success isn't brilliance or luck, it's patience, it's doing the simple things for an uncomfortably long time without convincing yourself you've outgrown them, everyone wants to feel clever, to skip steps, to find a faster route, but the truth is mastery hides in repetition, in the ordinary work done long after the excitement fades, it's not about being smarter, it's about staying long enough for consistency to look like genius.