Mike Ktaz, when I asked him how to be a champion like him when I was 15, said something akin to, "Don't drink beer at those damn keg parties.
So I never did.
And, even by my early 20's, when I knew I would not be a champion, I just said, ahhh, I don't want beer...itv stifles my progress...so I never touched it. It became like a game.