<p>*Some claim that with hard work anyone can achieve success. Others say that effort and determination will only get a person so far, that without the talet and advantages granted at birth, some goals will forever be out of reach. *</p>
<p>Assignment: Which is more important for success, hard work or innate gifts?</p>
<p>Through our own blood, sweat, and tears are humans able to generate successful candidates to lead our future generations and society itself. A select few may be gifted with potentially to grow greatly but what’s the point if these few are never given the chance to do so or never try what they’re supposed to be prodigious at? These are nothing but dormant seeds that unforgivingly have the ability but destined to never grow any taller than the dirt they lay on. Through current scientific and psychological research and the successful man known as Steve Jobs, humanity can be assured that perseverance is the true key to becoming one of the Greats. </p>
<p>In the early few years of the decade, the ASCS foundation (American Science of Children Studies) conducted several studies to depict how children from a multitude of origins develop intellectually. In reference back to the dormant seed analogy, humanity can equate opportunities to perseverance. The pooled data formulated a conclusion that supported that children from more well off, higher income families had a significant higher average in school. However an even more scrutinizing study within each school, putting income level aside, showed that there were always a select few that competed at a much more rigorous level than their peers. The studies showed how the ones that truly excelled were the ones that studied the most and persevered, while their classmates sat around busily doodling. </p>
<p>Steve Jobs is a symbolic man of creativity and innovation but rest assured that all of his work was generated from hard work. Head of his own company known as Apple, he was voted off from his own life work and forced to start from the bottom again. With no where to go, and crushed at what had happened, he began work again but with Pixar in the 1990s. At a wonderous coincidence, he successfully reinstated his connection back to his former company. Using, not any innate, hidden ability, but knowledge from an art class focused on scriptology, he created the Ipad and Mac to begin a revolutionizing course of his life and technology as a whole. </p>
<p>Coupling perseverance and opportunities, historically, leaders have been born, while many hidden talents will be forever in darkness and never to utilize their abilities for the greater good of society. The research studies on school children and the inspiring man Steve Jobs have, indeed, demonstrated that this claim to be true, along with other game-changing and charismatic leaders, yet to come.</p>