Stop Focusing On Others, Consistency Pays Off In The Long Run

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How I wowed people who didn’t believe in me with my “talents.”

I don’t believe in natural talent.

Almost always, when you see someone perform spectacularly at something, it’s usually because they spend hours of their time on disciplined practice.

I’m living proof.

I remember back in Grade 6 and the rest of junior high, I was praised as someone who was really smart, good at League of Legends, and athletic.

But before that, I was nobody. I was just the quiet, nice kid in the background.

How did I rise up?

For my academics, it was because I got my parents to enroll me in Kumon during Grade 5.

Kumon is a program for math and reading that requires a lot of consistent, disciplined practice.

You will always start quite a bit below your grade level and every day, you should be spending 30-minutes on homework.

Over time, with good consistency, you will move up through the levels and exceed your grade level.

For the first few months, I was doing very easy things.

I was adding and subtracting and it hardly took me any time. I moved through the levels and things got harder…