Hardwork: The Art Of Deliberate Practice By Carl Capolingua

The Importance of Hard Work

The age old question is what is more important, hard work, or talent, most people would respond with talent without thinking about it for more than a few seconds. There would only be a select few that would say hard work, I being one of those few. Hard work is more important than talent because people that work hard are willing to learn new things and excel, whereas people with talent will only stick to the one thing they are good at. There is also no such thing as talent, only deliberate practice. One other major factor in the argument of talent versus hard work is, that there are many examples of hard workers, and not those of talent.

A hard working person will get farther than someone that claims they have a

Capolingua says, “Could it be that it’s not hard work or talent that goes into making an exceptional performer, but a highly specific form of effort that most people fail to employ when they’re focused on greatness?” (Page 1, Para. 1). This quote means that maybe it is not either talent or hard work, but just practice. This specific quote is referring to Beethoven and how people just assumed he was a natural, but there have been scientific reports that hint at the fact that specific talent like that does not exist. Deliberate practice is just someone that understands they could become exceptional at something, and continues to pursue their dream, and become exceptional while everyone else is only

This will certainly result in that player being let go, traded or put on third or fourth string. On the other hand, a quarter back, safety, or running back that continues to work hard on their craft could become the next Tom Brady, or the next Adrian Peterson, someone who is known to be working hard. For example, when Tom Brady was in the NFL combine he had one of the slowest 40’s in that year, but look at him know, arguably one of the best quarter backs in the league. Adrian Peterson is also a good example of a hard working person. His yardage for his entire career is over 11,000 yards in only nine years. That many yards must count for something. All of this evidence proves the point, hard work is always more