From Dartmouth’s website, courtesy of study skills author and proud alum, Cal Newport’s How to Win at Dartmouth. Seems like a great recommendation for high school students, too.

“Rule #6: Do One Thing Better than Anyone Else You Know.
Confidence in your abilities is crucial for success at college. It builds your resistance to bad experiences, stokes your intellectual energy, sharpens your arguments and motivates you to explore your passions. A simple technique to build your confidence at college is to find a skill you enjoy, and then work until you are better at it than anyone else you know. The skill can be anything: writing comedy for the Jack-O, drawing cartoons for The D, holding a Student Assembly position, publishing short stories, playing guitar in a band, perfecting your jump shot—whatever. Just find one thing you can be known for.”