I think an illustrative example would be certain young professional athletes who struggle when they reach the level where everyone is as good of an athlete as t

I think an illustrative example would be certain young professional athletes who struggle when they reach the level where everyone is as good of an athlete as they are. Throughout their amateur careers, they excelled by being a far better natural athlete than everyone else, and may have not learned as much in the way of strategy and tactics because they could win regardless. I think another example could be very smart kids who breeze through school on raw intelligence and struggle when they reach something slightly beyond their natural abilities because they've never learned how to deal with difficult subjects. I don't think most success is this way, but I believe it can be.