Yep. Having gotten better-than-most-beginners at a few things in life, the most apparent thing is that there are levels to everything and your best competition is yourself yesterday, because someone's always naturally better at whatever you're working hard at.

Another one of these cats is Bettina "Betti" Hanlon who is working on her CS PhD and totals 572.5kg at 76kg in raw, drug-tested powerlifting with a lot of her career ahead of her in both CS and Powerlifting.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01855

https://www.openpowerlifting.org/u/bettinahanlon

https://goodlift.info/lifter.php?lid=19928

And here's the thing about both of them: they're mutants, they obviously work extremely hard, and they're not the best in their fields. Bettina was 53kg off of first place at IPF Classic Worlds this year. You can have a gift, work that gift extremely hard, and still be "only" in 8th place in the world. Hell, everyone who plays Nigel Richards says it's like playing tennis with a wall, and they're even beating him sometimes because there's a lot of luck in Scrabble. (He once successfully challenged "sulfidic" because that spelling is in one international dictionary, but not in the dictionary in the tournament he was playing in). There's levels to the levels, you know?