Your innate potential is not enough. Good problems and good collaborators are necessary to becoming whatever you want to become. Given a choice between being a

Your innate potential is not enough. Good problems and good collaborators are necessary to becoming whatever you want to become. Given a choice between being a big fish in a little pond, and being surrounded by some of the smartest people in the world, I'll choose the latter every time. It took me a while to figure that out. Don't waste years learning the same thing.