The more capable a person is, the more “can’t-make-it” moments they tend to go through. The difference isn’t whether they fall apart or not, but that after every breakdown, they don’t just stay there. Ordinary people think success is a single leap, but the truth is more like a filtering mechanism: life keeps pushing people into bottlenecks—some get stuck and stop, while others get stuck, dismantle the old structure, and keep going. What people call “awesome” isn’t that it all goes smoothly from the start; it’s that after being interrupted again and again, they can still reorganize themselves. The outcome you see is actually just the fact that they’ve crossed countless “this is almost it, I’m about to give up” moments.