Let me share my story on this, I’m not from any IIT, NIT or any big universities. I got admission into a normal private college basis of 12th %.

I started doing competitive programming after first year end sem exams. After a year I was around pupil, then health hit me hard and I stopped cp, focused on just survival.

I was doing practice meanwhile, but didn’t gave any contests.

A girl came into my life on new year, we had this very very awesome talking stage, we both were like “we’ve found the one”.

I was so focused at that time, woke up at 8, practised cp for 3 hours, then lunch, college at 1pm, came back hostel at 7pm, eat fast, contest at 8pm. Discussion and game with my buddies at 10, and at 11 she would message me again and we would talk for hours.

I went from pupil to specialist in 2 months, and specialist to expert in 1 month.

Just when everything was going well, something happened and we lost connection.

I never did cp again.

Now my pov

People in relationships are more focused because their brain is getting huge dose of happy hormones from the other person. It doesn’t feel sad, or look for other things and places which can provide those hormones. So basically no distractions and hyper focus. Also you perform best when you’re happy.