Love doing something so much that noticing what you are bad at and putting attention into picking up your performance in that area comes naturally (inspired practice is more effective than 'deliberate'). Along with the intelligence to solve those issues effectively and the wisdom to ignore what's not so important. Rinse and repeat for x units of attention.
Source/flex: that's what got me into the top .01% of multiple pursuits, or into a decent percentile with not that much time invested.
Peaks: Speedcubing (top 10), classical guitar (comp level in my youth), couple of major games (top .01% recently in one, top .1% a while ago).
I wish that I had learned to love programming in my teens, these things have made me happy but certainly not rich, haha. I like it but don't love it - I'm just okay at it.
Source/flex: that's what got me into the top .01% of multiple pursuits, or into a decent percentile with not that much time invested.