Is Talent As Imprtant As Hard Work?

If I am questioned "Which is more important for success, talent or hard work?" My answer is both. Both of talent and hard work can offer you opporunity to be successful. The key is you must know what you are talented at and get to work on it. Hard work always pays off no matter what you intense to do but it pays off more if you work on what you are talented at.


For instance, there is a famous australia guitarist named Tommy Emmanuel. He described his hard work on playing guitar as "playing day in day out and locked a lot of time on that instrument." This explains his ability to play guitar in the manner he can do now. And i think this shows how well you can achieve usually depends on how serious you are willing to go which equals how much effort you are willing to put in. As we have been told since very youg:" You can get it if you really want", the hard work is essencial for success.

However does this mean talent is not important at all and we can just ignore the talent difference but work hard blindly? I think the answer is no. And I think the most important role of hard working is to promote your talent not to take place of it. Everyone can work hard but not everyone can success in every area. And this is where the hard work comes to play: it will make you different from others and this difference may be able to help you success in the end.

I'm not saying hard work won't get you places. It will get you far but it won't get you as far as you would get focusing your hard work into something you control. And you can control your progression on stuffs you are interested in and talented at. In the end, I believes that people will benefit most if they put hard work and talent together.