When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.
Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Every villain is the hero of his own story.