<p>People deserve to fail if they are overconfident and overestimate their own abilities.</p>
<p>oooohhhhhhhhh, that makes more sense</p>
<p>Yeah, I've met a few arrogant and overconfident males here...needless to say you know what happened.</p>
<p>I think it all really depends on your skills.<br>
I personally am not the best writer. However, over the past year or so my writing has become exponentially better than it was because I started to care about my writing and putting lots of work and effort into it. My writing skills are much better than they were. Well, actually they are pretty rusty now because I havent had english since january, soo....yeah. But still better than they were, and they will definitely improve with more work.</p>
<p>Writing however is one thing I am able to learn well. Math on the other hand is not. I am not bad at math, I would even say I'm better than average, but by no means am I an A math student. I can't get an A in math. Not matter how hard I try I always end up with a B. I don't really get the concepts to be hard to grasp, but in the end once pencil is to paper on a test I mess up somehow when having to apply certain mathematical skills I have learned to complex theoretical situations.</p>
<p>Languages are my forte. Never really have trouble with them because I have always been great at memorizing (vocab is a breeze) and writing them usually isnt that difficult for me. Some errors here and there of course, but that's it.</p>
<p>I would definitely say that Intelligence>hard work, but it can vary greatly from person to person and subject to subject.</p>
<p>Boo math! I love math, but it's too mad im not that great at it.</p>
<p>you need intelligence + hard work. Either or and you will be paralyzed in status as average. For me, my lack of work has led to a 3.0 in hs and a straight 3.0 again in college, so in essence, i see myself as the epitome of average, but i do not study, or go to class, or make it for quizzes, etc. I try, but cannot find the motivation for these things as college moves just to damn slow. Hard work, or any work would significantly bring up my GPA, but there are those who do not care. I was never one to treat my class as a competitive arena or care to impress my peer or teacher. </p>
<p>What do you need in life, hard work coupled with intelligence and an intense drive to accomplish any goal you set to accomplish. Without that drive, your grades will look like mine..SCARY</p>
<p>People love to bring up Richard Feynman and Einstein the Incredible Math-Flunking Genius when comparing hard work to intrinsic talent. Neither statement is accurate: they're both products of an idealized form of intelligence we all have. It's way hard to accept that some people are just plain geniuses and are far smarter than we can ever hope to be. So we establish mechanisms to try and bring them down to size; suddenly, Feynman, the quantum physics extraordinaire, has a merely mediocre IQ! Einstein flunked math! Hey, if I flunk math, that's okay. What's good enough for Einstein's good enough for me!</p>
<p>In reality, Einstein didn't flunk Math. It was so easy it bored him. Feynman was a genius beyond most anyone's comprehension. Yes, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard, but Warren Buffett graduated from Wharton, Nebraska, and Columbia. Guess which group is more successful.</p>
<p>Yes, hard work is important. Yes, all these guys worked and worked and worked to an extent none of us can imagine. But the reality is, they were also all incredibly gifted people, and you need both to achieve what they achieved.</p>
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<p>i never thought of it that way. it totally makes sense that the haters will try to bring down einstein in any way they can so they pull out the microscope and look one semester in einstein's life and say "see! see! he's not so smart!"</p>
<p>gawd. i hate haters.</p>
<p>If a natural genius and an average person both work in the same field and exert the same amount of effort, then the natural will still achieve more.</p>
<p>A natural may only have to put in 1/5 of the amount of work that an average person has to in order to achieve the same result. But, if the natural's effort relative to the average person is less than that percentage, then the average person will beat him.</p>