since primary school i've always been the "smart kid in class" i hate studying, so i don't do it before exams, and i still get good grades, from school till i graduated from college (i had to learn how to study in college though =P)
i'ld compare to my classmates that would study a lot and still do bad in their exams... so there's gotta be something there
also my younger brother started riding about 6 months after i started, ever since he only rides with me, so we ride the same ammount of time, and in about 1 year he went over my level of riding, and he's much much better than me now (we ride the exact same ammount of time and he doesn't even watch tutorial videos or reads trashzen (i do a LOT))
even though i don't wanna believe it, and i wanna believe in hard work... facts show the opposite