In my view, being 10x highly depends on selecting the right problems. People usually can only breathe so much air or type so many words per minute. It's hard to

In my view, being 10x highly depends on selecting the right problems. People usually can only breathe so much air or type so many words per minute. It's hard to get up to 10x if that's what you are measured by. But if you are challenged with a hard problem where most others will fail completely or barely succeed after several tries, you can really shine. It's very important that you can successfully select such hard problems and not get bogged down with the daily grind of average difficulty problems. The downside is that if you solve hard problems without breaking any sweat, most people won't notice at all. In order to not only perform 10x but also get rewarded 10x you need additional skills of playing politics and marketing yourself.