Hello everyone, everyone's favorite zzzzsust19 here. As you may not see, I have been going through a rough time. So, I want to discuss and contemplate about the difficulties I am facing and try finding out what's going wrong. You see, I have spent a lot of time in competitive programming. It's already been 3 years since I opened this account, basically that means I have over 3 x 365 x 24 = 26280 hours in competitive programming. But compared to my time spent in CP, I clearly haven't made enough progress at all. I spend hours after hours behind thinking about what I am doing wrong and why I am not a Grandmaster yet but am struggling to find an answer. As you can guess by my profile pic, I spend a lot of time sleeping and dreaming about becoming grandmaster in Codeforces. In my mind, I already am the best philosopher and the best Grandmaster in codeforces. But reality fails to reflect that. I also asked the CP community several times "How to become GM". You see, doing CP is like playing Kabadi, everybody gets together to pull down the one person who is trying to achieve something. So clearly the community doesn't appreciate my quest for becoming a Grandmaster in Codeforces.

You may notice that I haven't practiced a single problem in past 4 months. It's because I believe in smart work, not hard work. Hard work is for dummies who can't think clearly enough, complicating simple matters. Isn't it right guys? I also went through severe depression throughout my last month and did contests anyways, because mental illness is clearly not a thing and I definitely don't need to see a therapist.

But despite my best efforts, I am not a grandmaster yet. Clearly, I am doing something wrong, right? So guys, how to become GM?