It’s not all about luck.
“In any great outcome, there is a component of luck. Yet if life were all about luck, the same people wouldn’t repeatedly do great things. When someone repeatedly does great things it is because they prepared in advance to advance to recognize, work on, and fill in the blanks when necessary. This is the essence of intelligent preparation.”
That things take time.
“I can’t give my students more time in their lives; but what I try to do is change the way they think about and value it in the first place. There is no Soylent version of thought and reflection — creativity is unpredictable, and it simply takes time. “
And to try not to compare yourself to others.
“Comparing ourselves to others allows them to drive our behavior. This type of comparison is between you and someone else. Sometimes this comparison is motivating and sometimes it’s destructive. You can be anything but you can’t be everything. When we compare ourselves to others, we’re often comparing their best features against our average ones. Not only do we naturally want to be better than them, the unconscious realization that we are not often becomes self-destructive.”