How To Become A Gadol

Rav Hutner said that he met many gedolim and not one of them became a gadol because he learned. They became gedolim because they were immersed in learning. Immersed means אז נישט איך האלט אין די סוגיא נאר די סוגיא האלט מיר - Not that I am holding in the sugya but that the sugya is holding me.