No matter where are you from or if you even like football, I'm pretty sure you know the names Messi and Ronaldo - considered by many the two best players of all time. While one embodies the perfect talent and ths other pure hard work, I want to show you the other side of the story.
While Lionel Messi is argubly be the greatest talent in history, this great sportsman shows us this just isn't enough, he was always the first to arrive at the training field and last one to leave, that's why he could have preformed at such a high level of both execution and confidence.
Think about it like that - if you get 1% better every day you are almost 38X better within just one year, now obviously it's not linear so think what you can do in years. In just another year you are 1428X better so even if someone starts 100X better than you, consistency will win, and it will not even take that long.