I would edit the title of this thread to "Whats your steps that a godel needs to take to become one" and we can have all anonymous internet posters here to decide how someone becomes a gudol b'yisroel.
(The benefit will that we can decide the formula and based on that decide whom we need to have derech eretz for and whom we can just bash and whom we have a mitzvah to bash and who is a avodoh Zara.)
Becoming an adam gadol? ah.. it entails soo much to achieve that, total dedication to avodas hasem.. complete selflessness.. and the list goes on.. but we know it when we see it. No need for a thread for that.
And here is the good news, your father/grandfather/uncle etc. must not be a Rebbe to become one, as well as being a descendant to a Rebbe doesn't make you one, when not meeting the full criteria.
Of course being a
bneshek in addition to meeting the full criteria is a huge plus, and sometimes even helps one to meet the criteria easier. זכות אבותיו מסייעתו