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Talent is innate skills, natural disposition with which we are born and that we must uncover. When working on it, it starts to bring a profit, but unrecognized, and an unsupported is useless. That would be the shortest summary of what talent is and how it helps us. And it is useful in achieving success in many fields, as long as it is properly cherished.
"Issue" with talent is that it is manifested in many forms, two different talents are
sometimes hard to compare. A little bit disappointing is that not every aptitude will help us to gain unimaginable fame and money. Certainly, however, it may be useful in everyday life and in overcoming daily difficulties As far as the question of whether the same talent is essential to succeed. it is no doubt about the role of the hard work in this process.
The success of our endeavors depends precisely on our commitment to the tasks performed, and on how much we focus on it.
Quite popular is the theory of 10,000 hours, which promoted a Swedish psychologist
K. Anders Ericsson. According to it, to be able to gain expertise in a particular area, it is
enough to spend on it a sufficiently large amount of time - it is about these 10 000 hours.
Ericsson conducted a survey among professional violinists and asked them to estimate time spent on exercises, which allowed them to achieve a high level of mastery.
The average result was 10 000 hours. The results can be interesting. Unfortunately, he also suggests that it is enough to learn something for a certain amount of time to really master it. Certainly, many people could take this statement as true, universal recipe for success. The truth, however, is a bit different. Why?
These data concerned only professional violinists. It is difficult to transfer their experience in the field of sports, for example. After all, in addition to the exercise, important are
psychological aspects, those related to diet and professional medical care. You could say
that it's like comparing oranges to apples - is relative and very conventional. However, no
one can deny the fact that years of practice and work on improving their skills will bring
results. But the sheer hard work is still no guarantee of achieving spectacular success.
It is therefore difficult to resist the impression that in order to succeed you need to find the
right balance of the two components. One thing is certain - the talent or hard work alone will not be enough to succeed. It is possible that having talent is even slightly overestimated in our culture. The result is that many people lack motivation to achieve something in life; it seems to them that they do not have any special skills.
We must all realize that hard work is always a solid foundation of every success. Avoiding a full commitment, we not achieve anything lasting or important. Even if you are very talented, you fail to build anything constructive, based on innate abilities. Better to be an average of talented but hardworking than "capable, but lazy”. And talent? This is useful, but it is definitely not the most important.
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But then I watched the first Rocky movie.
It all became clear. Sylvester Stallone was not a genius - he became one with hard work. When his opponent was the state champion, and nobody thought Rocky could even land a punch, he treated that as a challenge. He trained long and hard, and finally reached the pinnacle. And even tho he lost the fight, he did not care. He won the battle with himself. And there was always Rocky II.
So remember, when you think that hard work is not enough, just watch Rocky.
People who have talent in a particular field are actually predisposed to achieve better results, but as you pointed out, they are often lazy and in result they achive a little more than nothing. For this reason, I strongly believe that hard work is a key to success. Hard work not only allows you to achive the goals you set yourself, it also teaches you patience, dedication and gives you greater satisfaction afterwards.
Of course, the ideal effect can be achieved with a combination of these two factors.
Some "no" arguments (talent over hard work) say that profoundly gifted individuals have an edge. No doubt, but how many truly are "profoundly" gifted? Not many, at most. Which tool is more important, the one that everyone can use for every purpose, or the one some can use for some purposes?
Hard work trumps talent. Yes, even if a talented person can trump a hard working person (or vice-versa, because there's always someone better). Hard work, is something everyone can possess; it can help everyone for just about anything. Talent? Only some possess it, even less use it properly.
People who have both, are amazing. Why? Because not only were they naturally blessed, they've kept at it. Talent without hard work becomes meaningless. Hard work without talent stays hard work, it oftentimes makes the skill second nature - something talent rarely does.
No doubt talent is still important, but the question isn't "which one is important and which one isn't?" It's which is MORE important. Hard work is, because whether you have talent or not, you can have hard work. Hard work is not a genetic miracle like talent seems to be. It's a way of life, a personality trait that can be ingrained into each and every one of us. That is why it is more important.
The first, which come to my mind is the fact I'm a pianist. I saw a lot of people with or without talent. If somebody achieved something, he must had been hard working. That's why I fully agree with Einstein's statement.
At the same time, I believe talent isn't necessary to be a master. In my opinion, thanks to hard work everybody is able to gain a level of mastery, but if we compare two hard-working people (with and without talent) the winner will be this one with talent.
To sum up, talent is very important (but not necessary) factor. But if we feel we have talent, we definitely should improve this field.
I can't agree that some aptitutes won't bring financial profits, in my opinion every skill could make us wealthy, it's only matter of being plucky enough to achieve it.
Lionel Messi was always a top class player (even he was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency since he was 10) - you just saw that everything that he does comes with ease and just pure talent is glowing all around.
To sum up - both talent and hard work is important but they have one in common - you must train your talent a lot to push it to the limit as much as you can.
I've heard already about K. Anders Ericsson theory, in my opinion it is true. However, I think that as long as you can be a really great expert in something, talent is crucial to make one step further and be for example number one in the world.
Carol Dweck in her book “Growth mindset” opens up this topic in a very detailed way. When a person has growth mindset it means that they are eager to learn, they estimate themselves by a number of attempts they take, not by how well they performed during attempts (of learning algebra for ex). Carol was taking interview of successful young sportsmen and it appeared that even if they lose a game, they don’t upset. They are aware that they played on the maximum of their abilities so they archived their goal.
Robert Greene, author of “Mastery” also supports the rule of 10 000 hours. He showed it on the example of American jet airplane pilot. Gonzales was not the best pilot in the army. “Golden boys” had a physiological predisposition for flights. Gonzales didn’t have. But he was training 3 times more often than “Golden boys”. And after few years he became the greatest pilot.
Let’s all focus on the amount of attempts we take, not how good we are during those attempts.
That great song says:
“This is ten percent luck
Twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure
Fifty percent pain”
It's true that nearly everybody can be good at something and being talented is not really important that much, but it definitely helps in long-run and encourages you to progress, because you understand that you're given the opportunity that many other people simply don't have. The environment people live in is also super important, because encouragement from family and friends is probably the single most important factor on a way to success, I wouldn't achieve many things I'm proud of today if I didn't have enough support of people I keep close relations with.
In any case, achieving something will always require commitment and there is no way around that.
Also, I think that when it comes to talent, nearly everybody has something, he or she is really good at, but not many people realize this is talent or they simply do not pursue it.
Comforting for all of us would be thesis that we can achieve anything by hard work, discipline and consistency. I belive there is no limits for us anyway some people has some qualification better expanded than other and it lets them learn some skills faster. Lucky them :)
Of course the talented people have much easier in achieving mastery, I think everybody with a lot of hard work could do it :)
build them fast. Obviously only predisposition doesn't guarantee him having muscles, but hard work at the gym.
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