It's pretty simple Don't be the first at what you're doing. You need the accomplishments of others to build on. Have competition. You need to have someone els

It's pretty simple Don't be the first at what you're doing. You need the accomplishments of others to build on. Have competition. You need to have someone else to keep your skills developing. Have a supernatural amount of talent. It takes an amount of innate skill to truly be the best at something. Spend WAY more than 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. A good example is Feliks Zemdegs, the on-and-off Rubik's cube world champion. He's got the above skills, and keeps getting overtaken by various people, but so far, has redefined his skillset every time and risen back to the top, breaking even more barriers.