The answer to this is known by all, provided you have the courage to ask your inner self.
I am not the best. But I have myself observed in my inexperienced life that the path to being the best or the ‘different’ or the ‘ground-breaker’ lies in the road of ‘averageness’.
You just need to work hard for it. There is no substitute for it. the moment you start working hard, you are on your road to ‘bestness’. the moment you get satisfied and start living like ‘the other guys’, you lose it all. You become one of the many ‘other guys’.
You don’t need to do anything different, just follow what your job is with cent percent sincerity. And give your maximum. You lose the track towards ‘bestness’ the moment you think of relaxing(relaxing here means leaving the work you are doing for some other activity, and not related to sleep or whatever).
See all the distinguished people in the world. They didn’t do anything special. They led a normal life with full devotion, and ended up being special. When I see people who are awesome at Computers, or whatever, they have just been working hard for years.
I, like almost everyone(again, as I said above, everyone knows the answer to the question asked) have seen many ups and downs in my life. After observing myself and many others, I have come to the above realizations. I am fortunate enough to have seen the best and the worst of me at a young age. I have seen how sincerity towards a job can do wonders, even if others have a better affinity towards the job than you, and I have also seen how you can get left behind if you lose the zeal.
I am yet to discover what the ‘best’ is, but I am sure it hasn’t come yet. I am young and inexperienced. But I know somewhere inside that the road to ‘bestness’ passes through towns called determination, hard work, and focus.
-Kalpit Veerwal, 360/360 in JEE Mains - AIR 1
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