I have tried to be world-class many times in my life. I have failed all times. I am 22, for reference, but it seems the like every time I "level up", I find mys

I have tried to be world-class many times in my life. I have failed all times. I am 22, for reference, but it seems the like every time I "level up", I find myself improving but also my taste and what I define as "World class" improves. When I was 14, "world class" meant somebody who could actually make a product that works because all I could do was write basic HTML. When I was 17, "world class" meant somebody who was capable of understanding the abstraction that was casually thrown around the internet. At 19, "world class" meant somebody working at FAANG (or whatever the equivalent of it then was) At 20-21 (last year) I thought it meant somebody who could code and sell to build products that affect millions/billions of lives, like Mark Zuckerberg (watched too much of The Social Network, I guess). It was Zuckerberg or GTFO Of late I've realised that my skillset didn't matter as much as my ability to figure out how to figure things out and be consistent. Being self-taught and admittedly not "talented", I am in no way "world class" as you may define it, but I know I can figure things out on my own and ask the right people the right questions to continue growing as improving my taste in products. So what I'm trying to say is world class is a very broad term, but I think if you constantly work on improving yourself you will eventually find you're improving, just like in any other aspect of life. In hindsight, 14 to 17 year old me would consider current me pretty "World class"