1. Consistency beats talent

I always tend to admire talented people, and what they achieved. When I tried to research what is behind their success I found something else, and that was not talent. They were just consistent and failed so many times. But every time they failed, they learned a lesson and improved a bit. Then, I started to do the same.

Note that consistency without feedback doesn’t mean much, because you may have one year of experience repeated twenty times instead of a twenty-year-long career where you grow each day.