The desire to achieve excellence, be it in academics, athletics, arts, or any other area, is something that most of us experience at one point in our lives. We want to be good, we want to gain respect, we want to be at the top.
How do you achieve these goals? You put in whatever work is required. Perseverance pays off. What changes this process a little is the talent factor: All men and women were created equal, from a moral standpoint. One can plainly see that not everyone is the same; there are countless differences and individual qualities that make us unique. In some cases, these differences can provide advantages or disadvantages in certain fields of competition. Maybe it's height, maybe it's brain development, the point is that some people are born with what others have to work for, and in some cases, something that no amount of hard work can give you.
That being said, we can see in athletes, artists, and people in general a balance: the reliance they put on individual talent and the work they put in to make up for their shortcomings. Furthermore it should be noted that no one can run on talent alone: there is always the drive for victory, the motivation to be great. The relationship between these two ideas can create a quasi-spectrum of one's path to achievement. However, there are those who can go beyond these limits: the talented who work just as hard as those less fortunate. It is often these people that you see on the podium at the Olympics, receiving a Nobel Prize, earning scholarships to prestigious schools. Almost everything that we as a race do today has a competitive environment, and we as competitors experience varying degrees of both talent and hard work.
"People livin' in competition, all I want is to have my peace of mind."
How do you achieve these goals? You put in whatever work is required. Perseverance pays off. What changes this process a little is the talent factor: All men and women were created equal, from a moral standpoint. One can plainly see that not everyone is the same; there are countless differences and individual qualities that make us unique. In some cases, these differences can provide advantages or disadvantages in certain fields of competition. Maybe it's height, maybe it's brain development, the point is that some people are born with what others have to work for, and in some cases, something that no amount of hard work can give you.
That being said, we can see in athletes, artists, and people in general a balance: the reliance they put on individual talent and the work they put in to make up for their shortcomings. Furthermore it should be noted that no one can run on talent alone: there is always the drive for victory, the motivation to be great. The relationship between these two ideas can create a quasi-spectrum of one's path to achievement. However, there are those who can go beyond these limits: the talented who work just as hard as those less fortunate. It is often these people that you see on the podium at the Olympics, receiving a Nobel Prize, earning scholarships to prestigious schools. Almost everything that we as a race do today has a competitive environment, and we as competitors experience varying degrees of both talent and hard work.
"People livin' in competition, all I want is to have my peace of mind."
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