Step outside your comfort zone
To stay on top is more difficult than to get there. Kaggle is a very competitive collaborative and competition platform, in one of the fastest growing and changing fields in the information technology industry, machine learning. This field changes at a pace that is hard to keep up with.
Maintaining your position among the highest-ranked Kagglers can be a difficult endeavor. In Notebooks especially, where progress can be made faster than in Competitions (and the competition is very strong), very talented new users frequently appear, challenging those ranked in the highest positions. To stay on top, you need to reinvent yourself constantly, and you cannot do this unless you go outside your comfort zone. Try to learn something new every day, and do it right away.
Push yourself, stay motivated, and engage yourself to do what you think is difficult. You also need to explore the new features on the platform, which offers you new opportunities to create...