The concept of being the best at what you do is one of the fundamental principles of success. However, it is not one that people often talk about and it is very rare that you see it mentioned in self development books and articles on the topic of goal setting. Yet you can often hear that this single belief is one of the underlying beliefs of all successful people and athletes all around the world.
What it basically entails is that you will not move into a given arena unless you do so with the intention of becoming the best in that area. This is an extremely powerful belief to have and what it does is that it allows you to focus all your efforts into one single area and becoming an expert in that given field. You will always become a lot more successful by majoring in one single area than being mediocre in several different areas.
This is also why super hackers, special doctors etc are highly sought after people and can basically charge any price they life. The people who want the services of experts and the best persons in any field know that they simply can't find their kind of expertise anywhere else in the world and therefore they are willing to pay the price.
Just because you have the belief of wanting to become the best person in a given field it obviously doesn't mean that you will automatically become the number one guy. This however doesn't matter much and there are several reasons for this.
First of all you will automatically become extremely good at something when you are constantly striving to become the best guy at it.
This means that you will still be really valuable to others when it comes to your field of expertise even though you might not be as good as the number one guy. Second of all you can always individualize your expertise later on and turn it towards a niche that you know you can be the number one guy in.
The most exciting aspect of this belief however is that these types of people are usually the avant-garde and the leaders who do what no man before them thought was possible. Just like the 2 minute mile, they make the impossible possible and lead the way for generations to come.