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Originally Posted by ElephantSack
In my opinion, talent is garnered through hard work. It's kind of a "chicken and egg" question.
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while i mostly agree with your assessment here, i think there has to be a modicum of talent to be developed through the hard work. even with talent and hard work, luck is still a big factor in 'making it'.
although it seems that there's a shift towards the ideal that because an individual puts hard work into something (or what they call 'hard' work) that society should reward them. i hear it all the time, 'it's not fair! we worked so hard to get our band going and we're not getting anything! stupid jobs and having to pay to live! we worked hard, we should be able to play our music for a living!'
i call it the Field of Dreams effect; but in the real world, just because you build it doesn't mean they will come.