Talent versus Hard work

Some argue that to be talented is good enough while others claim that hard work and determination is the key to achieve success. Talent is an innate capacity that needs to develop through practice. Therefore to be talented doesn’t mean to sit all day long on the couch waiting for better results to present themselves that will not happen, in this case talent is useless. So as to avoid wasting your talents you need motivation and here where “Hard work” takes place, one needs to put his/her own talent into practice for instance in order for a writer or a singer to shine in his/her own domain and make a name for himself/herself, he/she needs to work harder and practice more and more, though the fact that he/she is that talented.

 As you can see that talent without hard work is a waste, that is to say that both talent and hard work count, thus, they must go hand in hand.

And since I am a deep thinker and always in my mind; I brought to you this delicate issue to engage you with me to help make your minds work as well, so what do you think counts more “ Talent” or “Hard work” ?

To help get the picture clearer for you, here is a great example of our times, the best

soccer player of the 21^th century Cristiano Ronaldo; I have watched a documentary about him in which he stated that all the success he achieved today was a result of ton of efforts, struggle, hard work and determination, and it has nothing to do with talent. Accordingly success will not come out of nothing, or by saying I am talented I have not to spend much time preparing I can handle it easily, as an illustration to this, those smart genius students who see their classmates study for 12 hours to get a nice mark while they have to study only for two hours and it is done, in the long run, this will not lead you anywhere, you might get worse by not working on your talent, thus it is necessary to devote a lot of time and hard work to make it happen. And going back again to soccer field so many talented players missed the chance to enter the history and to be recognized by not putting their talents into practice, and hard work.

Hence the magical formula that truly works is when you put your talent and the hard work together.

Below I will site some steps that you may need to follow in order to combine between your talent and hard work:

    ü Find out what your talent is: we all know that every human-being got something unique so you may find yourself having pleasure doing some activities over others. Some prefer art others choose sport and the list goes on.. Your main goal in this step is to find what you are good at, bear in mind that it is never too late, seek and you will find.

  ü Choose your path :  once your know what your talent is now it is the time to decided what     are you going to do with it and what your ultimate goal is ?

    ü Make progress: enough thinking and orchestrating it is the time to make progress, one move each day with having a clear vision of the goal you are aiming for will lead to where you destined to be.

     ü And finally stick to hard work: never let disappointment and fear creep into your heart and mind, keep working harder no matter what takes, at the end you will see the light, blessings and opportunities.

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The Art of listening and its immense importance

Listening is an awesome skill that the majority neglects in our days; people tend to talk more than listening, while it should be completely the opposite. I witnessed this in several situations, as an illustration, whenever the chance comes I and my friends met, we normally do what ordinary people do, which is indulging in a discussion. Yet, if you contemplate our discussion more carefully you would notice the same thing I noticed, which is very striking, in the middle of our conversation we reached the point where we no longer listen to each other, I mean the «effective listening», where you activate your conscious and start interpreting what the other is trying to say instead of preparing the astonishing thing that you will say once the other finishes his or her own speech. More precisely, we just turned the conversation into a competition, who talks most wins, each one of us is trying to show how skillful is in talking. And here where the main purpose behind communicating is missed. Mainly, what we have here is a failure to communicate.

If we stop for a second and think about this, it would become clearer for us to see that we truly need to reconsider our behavior while interacting with people, friends, or family members; remember that in every conversational event, the person who speaks least benefits most. I have always wanted to tackle this issue, since the chance comes now; I am going to break it down for you in more details by providing you with some helpful hints so as to help you boost and sharpen your listening skill.

1)    Be Open-minded while listening: this stands for the idea that while listening to what the speaker says, do not allow for yourself to be emotionally triggered, and avoid being so sensitive, instead of doing that you would rather try to be open to the difference and therefore provide more space for new ideas and insights to come in, and here where the growth takes place, to put it simply you accumulate knowledge. And KNOWLEDGE is Power.

2)    Watch your body postures: body language plays a very important role to show interest, for instance while listening to what the other is saying, try to make eye contact with him or her, that would help you to focus more during the conversation as well as it encourages more the speaker to open up to you and tell you everything. Your main duty while someone is talking is to process every single word he/she says even though the topic doesn’t concern you believe me one day will, this happened to me so many times.

3)   Ask questions: this tool is very helpful and it engages you as well, in order to be able to  ask good questions, it entails to pay a full attention to what the speaker is saying not only this but also interpreting what he or she is saying. In my opinion, by applying particularly this method certainly you will become a great listener. 

To sum up, this article is not encouraging you to remain silent, but it was just an opportunity for all of us to reconsider our behavior while conversing with one another or collectively, as I mentioned earlier. Don’t you ever underestimate that Skill!!!

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