When I started beginning my corporate career, I realized I had an edge over many of the employees that were employed in the company even though I did not have any industry experiences nor the technical expertise. The edge I had was that I was a former professional athlete. What does this mean? It means that I’m already trained with a habit of working hard/smart every single day to improve personally and driven to contribute quickly to the organization with a significant impact through understanding the current system. This is one of the things that many employees lack. They lack the drive to “practice everyday” to get better as “players contributing” to the organization to achieve a common team goal nor do they understand right away that for you to fit in within an organization, you must fit-in to the current system. So practice everyday to get better in what you love to do.