Talent or Hardwork?
By SirenOnFire
@JeeyanDee (2692)
9 responses
@InquisitiveMind (132)
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31 Aug 17
Yep, agreed. Talent gives you a headstart. It's like that tortoise and the hare tale we learnt as kids. Talent can help you sprint faster and make progress quicker, but if you get lazy and don't work on your craft, you'll be overtaken by someone putting in consistent effort.
Talent can make a person comfortable in their skill and too confident sometimes. And we often mistake someone's consistent hardwork's results as coming from talent, not realising that all we have to do is work some more, work smarter, learn some more, and improve ourselves.
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@JeeyanDee (2692)
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31 Aug 17
Beautifully written and well explained. I myself prefer to be called hard working than smart or talented because I believe that the things we achieve won't come to fruition if we didn't work hard for it. So saying that someone achieving this only because of their talent is like disregarding the many effort and much work they put to realize their goals.
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@InquisitiveMind (132)
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31 Aug 17
@JeeyanDee Exactly. Yes. It's kind of an insult to all the work they've put in. No doubt talent helps, but without hard work, it isn't the most useful. :)
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@paigea (36317)
• Canada
3 Sep 17
@JeeyanDee Some things require talent. I will never be good at designing clothes, for example.
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@JeeyanDee (2692)
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2 Sep 17
That's good to know! Does this mean you don't believe talent as an important aspect to reach success?
@JeeyanDee (2692)
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1 Sep 17
Yes, because in order to achieve what you aim to be, you need both, but I believe that hard work really is the key more than the talent.
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@JasperTore (1275)
• Philippines
4 Sep 17
Well being talented makes things easier since you already have the natural instinct or whatever it is that helps you do things easily without thinking about it a lot. However, hardwork can still make things turn differently. Without hardwork every dream will not be a reality. It will forever be a dream. For me a combination of the two creates synergy and the outcome, well, I cannot fathom what it will be. But surely, it is something which will awe us all.
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@JasperTore (1275)
• Philippines
4 Sep 17
@JeeyanDee That is correct indeed my friend. 
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@JeeyanDee (2692)
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4 Sep 17
I very nuch agree with you! People who are deemed great have done well on balancing both of these. You need both of these to achieve excellence.
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@peachpurple (13962)
• Malaysia
31 Aug 17
Talent and hardwork go hand in hand in order to succeed
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@YrNemo (20255)
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1 Sep 17
As my uni professors pointed out to us often, hard-work, hard-work, and only hard-work will take you anywhere!
@mildredtabitha (16126)
• Nairobi, Kenya
1 Sep 17
I will go with hardwork because it beats talent in most cases. Everyone has a talent but few people know what their talent is. Some even get to 60 or more years without ever discovering their talent.
Talent is something that was there for everyone from the beginning and is something we should enjoy having. For example a dancer might choose to dance for fun and not to get paid for it. When it comes to working hard, we work hard to achieve something and not because we enjoy it. :)
