Recently, I have been posting a lot of comments on others' posts regarding feeling that aptitude and IQ are necessary for reaching substantial heights in CP. I disagree, and there are probably more than enough examples in support of my position on codeforces and other CP platforms. Nonetheless, since I am trying to improve at CP myself, I intend to post every day from now on to provide an update on my progress in order to keep a literal complete record of my progress starting from specialist. I can guarantee you that I do not have any sort of great natural aptitude, so this should be interesting to see over time. I have been doing CP for just under a year at this point in time, so this daily record is simply a digital tracking of the progress I intend to make anyways. It is intended to encourage those that are discouraged by their own struggles -- to see that work actually does matter. If you do enough, you can reach significant heights still -- it just may take a bit longer than other people.

This will also provide me a bit of accountability for making some movement every single day, which I have been doing for almost 2 months at the moment anyways.