In the world of films and media success stories, it's nice to show the path to success as a series of funny video inserts to funny music. They show that all this is easy and fun, knowledge seems to get into your head by itself and all solutions are successful and accurate. But in fact, the skill is developed in silence. In a boring, heavy and cheerless silence, in which you need to think, establish logical relationships, draw conclusions and write down. I have three qualifications and this path to knowledge and mastery is always as hard and dreary as I described - in any case. And here, on bitcointalk, the path to knowledge and rank advancement is just as difficult. And the secret of success is simple - you need to love what you do and communicate on topics that interest you.
That's very well explained. Achieving things in life is not as easy as some might portray it to be. The books and movies that we read and watch don't show real stories and they are just imaginative fairy tales where a person wishes for something and achieves it pretty easily without facing a lot of difficulties and hardships, while the reality is totally different. You need to lose a lot of things only to achieve one goal and achieving that goal wouldn't give you enough satisfaction that would justify the hardships you've gone through for it.
So, no matter what it is, whether it's rank in a forum, achieving a certain degree, mastering an art or skill, or anything else, it can all be achieved with hard work and dedication, but as always said by everyone, it won't be easy all the time, but you will achieve it if you don't give up on it and keep going.