Which Is More Important: Talent or Hard Work?
Hard Work
Talent only carries you so far in life…
Agreed. I have seen many people with talent “be talented” but not very successful. Hard work can be created but talent can’t. Anyone can work hard.
Talent fades. A work ethic doesn’t.
I agree totally
true ,but we should take it that both education and work ethic are half half in a way,none is perfect
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Depends on the task at hand and how people perceive your results.
Take landscaping as an example.
Keeping landscaping looking good takes hard work. You can build a future and great business on hard work
. You might have a talent for business and grow it bigger.
Or you could be Frederick Law Olmstead who landscaped the Biltmore estate and be remembered in history for forward thinking. And talent.
Build a house. You can be a very successful contractor. Or a super carpenter. Or a great plumber. And the more you learn and work then the more valuable you will be.
Or you could be Frank Lloyd Wright with talent.
So many examples! But there are no successful examples I can think of that made “talent” not part of “hard work”.
I agree with @gouf78 - you need both. There is rarely a reward for working harder than necessary to achieve a given result.
Success is much more perspiration than inspiration
“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” --my coaches
You can’t teach speed as they say but you can learn endurance.
Important for what? If a specific narrow goal, I might say talent. But for life, I have to say: Hard work, character and attitude. Things you don’t have to go to college to learn.
Definitely have a grinder athlete perspective on this. Hard work makes the average good, the good great, and the great exceptional. I have found that to be the case in business as well. Many talented people peek early because they no longer are motivated and lose the grind. That thing called life gets in the way.
Read Cal Newport’s newest book, So Good They Can’t Ignore You.
Hard work. Someone could have a tremendous amount of talent, but if they don’t utilize it, they will not go far. Someone who works hard can eventually surpass the person in talent.