IT’S HARD WORK, NOT TALENT In this article Annie Dillard shares her view on “what talent is?”. She believes that there is no such thing as talent instead she states that’s it is hard work, love and affection that makes something successful. Dillard discusses hard work and love for something can lead you into doing extraordinary. Like when a man saves a child by lifting up a car, but that does not mean he has talent, instead it was his love toward children that gave him power to do so.…
Talent and Luck on the other hand are not as important in reaching the top. Of course having talent is necessary, but it is not sufficient in being able to succeed. Not everyone has talent or even luck. In Gladwell’s book he mentions that because of the way a certain athletes birthday is, he’s able to rise to the top, but that's not the only thing helping him to get there. You can’t base success solely on talent and luck because you will inevitably never reach the top. Without opportunity and time, you can’t get very…
everyone has the potential to succeed and that they can approve their abilities with hard…
In her article, she insists that, “We need to correct the harmful idea that people simply have gifts that transport them to success, and to teach our students that no matter how smart or talented someone is – be it Einstein, Mozart, or Michael Jordan – no one succeeds in a big way without enormous amounts of dedication and effort.” (Dweck 5)She provides some great examples of famous people who succeed with massive effort, and these people unquestionably have growth mindsets because they never give up after difficulties. They all had great accomplishments, but they didn’t rely on their talent to be…
Annie Dillard is an amazing author and writes about her experience of working hard and how it pays off. I 100% agree with Dillard’s beliefs about talent and if you work hard towards your goal to achieve it, then it will be much more rewarding in the end. Now a day’s people in society feel like ones’ talent just comes naturally without really having to work for them at all. This is exactly the opposite of what Annie’s perspective was on talents. Society today wants the easy way out and they don’t want to work hard to achieve their goal. If one is not born with a talent and it is not natural to them then they feel as if the talent wasn’t meant for them. In Dillard’s writings, she tries her best to relate to her readers to help them understand the message she is trying to convey.…
The speaker is defining 'talent' with relative examples, however there are two different ways we can define talent. Firstly, the restrictive way, talent is someone who is top at distribution graph with great analytical and creative nature. Secondly, everyone in workforce, which sounds bogus. The definition must be contextual, broadly related to brain power as Peter Ducker's knowledge worker and related to particular industry , he or she is…
Everyone is ascribed to their own unique talents. Most people do not often realize the potential that they hold and instead allow their potential to remain hidden from themselves. The main reason that some people do not elicit their talents is stated in Horace’s famous quote, “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.” This quote states that a person who faces difficult obstacles will elicit their true potential that was previously hidden from themselves. Horace’s quote is a true and agreeable statement because everyone must face difficult challenges in order to realize their true potential. One famous psychologist named Kazimierz Darowski presented an experiment that proved Horace’s quote was true by observing the survivors after World War II in which the survivors stated that they were more grateful than before the war. There are other personal experiences that have encountered this meaning of the quote by facing difficult…
In the essay “ Expertise Dissected,” Daniel J. Levitin believes that barely anyone can become an expert in their area without continuos practice. Moreover, he mentions that although talent is a major factor that people acquire skills more rapidly than others, with only talent, one cannot achieve success in that area. Finally, Levitin emphasizes that practice is the most essential factor leading to a significant achievement. From my point of view, I totally agree with Levitins’ opinions. Based on my life experience and the book I read, I think his points are totally correct. All in all, practice is the most important foundation for success.…
The first major conclusion is that nobody is great without work. It's nice to believe that if you find the field where you're naturally gifted, you'll be great from day one, but it doesn't happen. There's no evidence of high-level performance without experience or practice.…
Those are the reasons why I agree with this quote, and also how i interpreted it. The quote applies to many famous people and athletes that gave up their own time to try and become great at something they…
Skills often pass off as talent, because people like to believe the myth of the “overnight success.” They might think you were born with it, and you can let them believe that. But most people can develop the equivalent of talent by working hard and developing the skills instead. In fact, with hard work, skills supercede talent.…
Every individual sets out in their life with a dream to build an empire of success using the basic building blocks of success available to them: talent, passion and practice. However, many do not acknowledge that their future has been predetermined by uncontrollable factors. Although it may be hard to accept, many brilliant minds have broken down success realistically, like Malcolm Gladwell. He states, “No one- not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses- ever makes it alone” (115). People looking for success need to know that talent alone does not make a person successful, in consequence of the fact that family background and perfectly timed opportunities unknowingly act as the foundation of the empire of success.…
“Music is all around; all you have to do is listen.” Quoted Evan Taylor in the ending scene of August Rush. August Rush was a boy who discovered the power of music in his journey to find his parents. His giftedness was a useful tool in his accomplishments, that can be seen throughout the movie. His giftedness did not guarantee success in that he would need the right resources, motivation, and a little hardwork obtain it.…
People born with natural talent hardly ever face challenges regarding the category they are proficient in. Imagine an academically gifted child, who decides to learn how to play the cello. This child quickly becomes frustrated with the advanced techniques and skills they are required to learn but cannot grasp, and quits altogether. Nothing was learned from this failure, the child did not retain any information they were taught regarding the cello. In the first paragraph of “Adversity: An Opportunity to Choose Growth” a nonfiction article by Camille Preston, Ph.D, PCC, it asks the rhetorical question:”What will [someone] do to turn adversity into a learning opportunity?” Few people turn mistakes into opportunities to grow as a person. Instead, they turn from one thing to the next, giving up every time they fail. Isn’t it best for people to stick to what they’re good at, in order to avoid getting hurt? Of course, some people claim to be “untalented”, but everyone enjoys doing something important to them - perfect at it or not. Being content with life is the end goal, and if someone has failed often enough to be dissatisfied with their life, it was not a happy life they lived. To quote Thomas Edison: “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Obviously, if someone does not succeed, they…
Some people would argue that the top musicians or sports people they see on TV or wherever it might be are different to themselves but in fact that is false. What we see is the finished product then assume they have something special but in fact all they’ve done is more work. Many times we put down success to having specific genetic inheritance. The innate capacity of a performer is different to innate ability. Genetically a person may have an innate capacity, but without the determination and deliberate practice and desire etc, they will not develop their ability.’ Certainly capacity can feed ability, but capacity in and of itself will never be enough to perform at the highest levels…