[DonRotolo]

Work at it.

If you aren't putting everything into it, you're not doing anything.

You don't just want to learn history (for example), you have to want to understand and even enjoy it, and simply be better at it than anyone. With a reasonable intelligence, work will get you there.

Like Taylor wrote, one motivated B employee is worth a room full of A+ slackers.

Nobody is going to do it for you.