Michael Mistretta wrote a great post about ‘Talent and hard Work’ pointing out that Talent isn’t the main part of success or great work.
People use talent as a crutch — an excuse: “I couldn’t possibly do such and such because I’m nowhere near as talented as so and so.”
That’s what people use to say to me as well. And I don’t understand that! And if I tell them that I have to work hard get the sings the way I want them to be, they tell me that they can’t — what?
Maybe my value is determination, persistence, passion, a stubborn refusal to say “I quit”.
And maybe, just maybe, that’s more valuable than Talent.
That’s the point for me! I have no ‘birth-talent’ — or I just don’t know it yet, if something like that even exists — but I like different things and am passioned about them which makes me work hard to get better. One part of which is my writing and I think all this thoughts fits very good with my ‘Why I write English‘ post. I try to get better even if I’m ‘normally’ a not that talented person in writing and getting better at it is hard work but I’m not going to stop!
