Paradoxically, a lot of what makes someone talented gets in the way of real hard work.
By that I mean that most times the opposite of talent looks like hard work. And most times the more talent you have the harder it is for you to get any real work done. For the path between talent and hard work is that much longer the more talented you are and running from one end of the scale to the other is that much more time consuming, that much more difficult.
Basically, talent and hard work aren’t friends, and if they are they live on opposite ends of the world. Making great shit happen then seems to be less about talent or hard work and more about conquering the gruelling marathon in between both, and then staying still for a while.
All marathoners are geniuses then. But not all geniuses are marathoners. And for the rest of us talentless dummies (most of us, basically all of us) with shorter tracks to run hard work is the only thing that really matters in this race against ourselves.
Yeah, hard work seems to be the only thing that really matters. For if there’s anything that’s really true it’s that the world is run by hardworking idiots. To quote Beyoncé, “Who runs the world? Who runs this mutha?! We do! Yeah!!”