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SaikyoStyle posted...

And others will never be a top-tier pro athlete because despite having bags of talent, they wont put in the work.

Believe it or not, having ''natural talent'' is the biggest curse for success. Naturally talented people get so used at being good they don't develop the work ethic, the thick skin to sustain real hardships and adapt to ever changing challenges. They might be good at first, beating everyone effortlessly but comes a point where natural talent is no longer enough when you are facing people that have prepared to fight back against someone like you. The best school of life is being bad at something right from the start; it forces you to decipher a challenge, to analyse all its aspects, to pin point the information that is relevant to overcome it, the requirements you lack and have to develop to not being caught off-guard again and turn that challenge into an advantage to use against others.

I will strongly urge people to read the excellent book from Angela Duckworth called ''Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance''. Truly, if you had one book to read this year, you should read that one.