Hard work often outperforms talent

We all have different talents in our lives. Some of us are awesome at sports and even go on to the big leagues, others of us are good at business, investing, sewing, cooking, you name it and there are tons of talents that we have been given. But that doesn't mean we cannot acquire new talents all the time, and we get those new talents from hard work and determination.

Hard work will often outperform talent, if you have a super talented basketball player and he is so good that they know he will go to the NBA but all the attention and people telling him he is so good keeps him from practicing as hard or as much. Then on the same team you have a player who is good but nothing special like the super talented player but he on the other hand practices super hard and practices when ever he can. Most times that mediocre player will develop to the level of the other player and become better or just as good. You hear of players all them time that are going to be so good but then they just don't keep up the hard work and before you know it they are playing in some D league overseas. Then you have those hidden stars that work their but off and become the best. Take Micheal Jordan for example he got cut from his high school basketball team but that didn't stop him he worked extra hard and became one of the best basketball players of all time. "Hard work will always beat talent when talent doesn't work hard" -Tim Notke.

But hard work and talent do not only refer to sports it is with anything you do in life. With your career even if you are not the most talented person at the job, with hard work you can beat the talented people and earn those promotions or bonuses. There is not substitute for hard work!