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<p>You can’t use hard work to become gifted or talented. You either are or are not gifted or talented. You can use hard work to make up for a lack of talent but it’s either there or it isn’t. No matter your talent level you have to work hard but things do come more easily to some than others. To suggest that innate talent has no bearing is ignorant.</p>
<p>I think art is a very apt analogy (sports also be we can agree to disagree). I have no artistic ability whatsoever. I don’t care how long I practice or study I would never be able to be a Rembrandt, Dali or Van Gogh. They had talent along with their hard work. It is very clear that hard work will trump talent in most cases, unless the talented person decides to work as hard or harder than the non-talented one. I’m sure if Sergio Garcia worked as hard as Tiger (who is supposedly that hardest worker on the tour) he could be 90% of Tiger but Tiger has that talent level that we may have never seen before in a golfer. I would use scientist or mathematicians for analogies but I’m not that familiar. Sorry.</p>