You read that right. You won’t become a master. You think you’re in the top 20%, but you’re actually in the 80%. Don’t argue. If you insist, answer these questions first:

  1. Are you more talented than 80% of people?
  2. Do you study with the same obsessive devotion as the masters?
  3. Do you have a great mentor guiding you the way masters did?
  4. Do you have the same depth of real-world experience?

No extraordinary talent. No relentless effort. No mentor. No battle scars from the trenches. And the people who are already better than you are working even harder. So what makes you think you’ll become a master?