What is more important, Talent or Hardwork?

Morayo Akinnifesi
3 min readDec 14, 2020

Talent is an inborn quality that gives you a smart way to achieve. Talent is futile unless you go for it. One should never sit on a couch and expect for a good result. Just because you have talent doesn’t mean you can go on the field and be the star of the team. “Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.”

Whereas hard work is more important than talent as talent will only carry one so far. If one is not willing to put in the work to harvest and cultivate their talent, then the talent itself is essentially useless. Hard work and perseverance will beat out pure talent any day. Therefore, if talent and hard work go hand in hand it provides better results. If you are lucky to be born with the brains that are capable of potential genius, you cannot become a true genius without motivation. Here is where the hard work comes into play. Anyone can have an idea, vision, or dream, but it takes that 99% working hard to make it closer to becoming a reality.

Talent gives you a head start, but hard work makes you finish the race. We’ve all heard that hard work is the key to success but sometimes the talent overpowers hardwork and people get better outcome.

Hard work is way more important than talent because hard work can get you place even a scholarship to a good college many people believe that talent is more official than hard work but it’s really not because talent can only get you so far in life.

Most of the time the application of hard work talent becomes futile. Therefore hard work is more important than natural talent. Over the years researchers, have discovered that hardworking capacity is a major component of intellectual ability, predicts success in a wide variety of complex activities.

Talent is never enough because in most of the cases hard work always leads talent in the long run because just “having” talent doesn’t do anything. One need to apply the right talent in a right way in whatever you do and applying our talents always require us to work hard.

Most of the people are not very talented but they are hard working. It takes time for a person to understand the materials putting a lot of hardwork on it, and completing the task fantastically. Some are born genius and they score good grades but not every person is not a genius but they have managed to get A’s in every field. That’s the result of hard work.

Always strive to make a conscious effort to use your talent and hardwork in a systematic manner to get better results. Talent is a word to acknowledge the ‘hard work’, so maybe, in reality, talent and hard work are not two separate things in our minds but, in reality, they are different. Einstein was wise to say ‘’ It means even more coming from a man of his intellect!). Who else is better to take it from than a person such as himself? Yes, Einstein undoubtedly had talent. But would this talent had gotten anywhere if he had sat around all day? No, he had put in loads of hardwork to a make his name in history for every aspiring generation.

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