Nice article on Maksim Korolev in the Stanford Daily:
I love his answer to this question:
What do you think differentiates you from your contemporaries?
"I guess I just have more talent. I’m not sure. I would like to say that I work harder, but everyone works just as hard, I think. I think I just lucked out. I just have a bigger engine, I guess, and a better ability to work that engine. I can do a lot of training, and I don’t usually get hurt."
Happy to see he recognizes he has natural talent and is lucky in that sense.
Best of luck to him.