Without hustle, talent will only get you so far.
Shubham Shah??
Design Lead @stuffcool ? Graphic Designer ? The world notices how you PRESENT your idea??
Without hustle, talent will only get you so far.
-Gary Vaynerchuk
When we talk about somebody's accomplishments the society quickly applies labels that a particular person is talented or gifted. This is being done for a long time now. We categorize or view people as talented or not talented. But that's not the complete story.
Talent is just an upper hand that you have. It's like a freebie that gives you a slight upper edge over others. But if it is not accompanied by hard work or effort it can't get you far.
The truth is that not everyone has talent. If we say that only talented people can do good in life then what about the rest. That doesn't even sound logical.
If you have talent that's good. You got a starting point. You can grow from there now.
But you still need to put in the work to make it big in life.
What if you don't have talent? Then you should all the more be motivated to put everything you have into the work that you are doing because you got no choice but one.
And remember that hard work always beats talent.
Even Will Smith in interviews has said many times that he doesn't see himself as particularly talented. What he excels at is his WORK ETHIC.
We have plenty of examples, people like Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, Tom Cruise. They don't have talent but they have given everything they had to their work and are where they are today.
So guys forget this talent thing. It's not going to get you anywhere. Focus on your work. Do whatever it takes to achieve what you want to.