"Champions are not made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, A dream, A vision. They have to have last-minute stamina. They have to be a little faster. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the will."
Assignment
If you want to become an expert in a certain field, do you need to have more talent or more motivation?
Assignment
If you want to become an expert in a certain field, do you need to have more talent or more motivation?
3 contributions:
In my opinion, having talent is not all you need to reach a goal. Actually, I think it takes up 40 percent of what you do need. Wanting to reach a certain goal, believing you could, seeing it happen are all factors taking up the rest of that percentage. Those three factors and maybe more, are called motivations.
I always thought I would do great playing basketball. Three summers ago, I shared that thought with my mother. She was okay with it and told me to go pay the fees. That was right after I knew how to go on my own. I asked her to come with me, because my Arabic isn't really understood by most people. She told me that I was old and capable enough to do it myself. If she was supporting me, she didn't give me that impression. Her obvious indifference made my desire to become a basketball player fade away over a couple of weeks. I had motivation. I had the desire. I had the will. I saw it all -metaphorically speaking-. I might have had the talent, but as i lost motivation, i lost the interest to find out.
So my answer to that question is: Yes, if you have got motivation, you could become an expert. If you've got the talent, that would make the task easier and you would be praised as a natural. Having both on the other hand, you just might be the best of the best.
I think that combing them is much better and effective
Hydrogen and oxygen are distinctly different elements, but sometimes they combine to form water. Something similar is true for motivation and talent.
Motivation is the desire to do something. Talent is what you do well naturally,or you are really good at. They can exist independently, but when they combine, they create something special. They create motivated talents.
People often are naturally good at something (talented), but it just doesn't turn them on. For example, Heather is good with numbers, but she doesn't go out of her way to find tasks calling for that talent. Most people have such talents. But then there are those talents that we really enjoy using. These are the motivated talents, and this is where the magic is
We use motivated talents every chance we get. Most of the time we don't even think about it. For example, Larry has a motivated talent for conversation, and he naturally engages both friends and strangers in dialog. He doesn't consciously determine to do so; it just happens. It's natural and unforced. He enjoys it, and he's good at it. That's the proof of a motivated talent.
Motivated talents tend to be irrepressible. They find expression. In fact, if you've ever tried to stifle a motivated talent (either yours or someone else's) it probably felt like you were trying to hold two dozen ping pong balls under water at the same time. Motivated talents pop out, even if no one else is asking for them. And doesn't that make sense? After all, it's what we do well AND enjoy
Motivation or Talent? Some believe that the talent is more important than the motivation, but i believe that the motivation has to be number one to let the person discover and develop his talent through the right way. It is easy to be talented without any motivation so you have nothing and this talent will disappear by the time. Talent is not enough because if you have the talent without the will to show it and to lead you to a better life, it will wither and become useless.
The best example to support my point of view is from my own experience. I found out that without the will, you will just do nothing and fail at the end even if you walked on it without the motivation, you will also find no results. I was very talented at gymnastics and my body was very flexible, but every time i just hated to go to practice. Actually my parents chose what they thought was just the right thing for me to be done, but they should have checked if I will be positive with this or not. I used to practice four hours a day, they thought that working out though this for long may let me change my mind about it, but actually there was nothing that could let me gain the motivation, it had to be inside me. Day after day, practice after practice and I still did not like the game. I kept playing for seven years! After all, the time has come to show the truth about my feelings through this game, which it was the biggest competition in the game. I was very nervous very worried very disappointed, and I was refusing the way they pushed me to play. My motivation percentage was zero. My parents stood against my will and let play "their responsibility". I did what they wanted and played!! Guess what? I was the last on the list, I just failed and disappointed my parents, but one thing I was happy about, that they finally got that I was not the one for this game. I know I was young enough to explain. They believed now that without the motivation to suck a thing, so then I have no talent. My advice to all parents now: "Don't go over your children's will there will be no result and it's going to be just a waste of time, money and effort".
First get the motivation to do anything it may lead you to the real talent. Resist to something against your will, work out through it, believe in it and believe in your self and in God. Everyone has a talent but not everyone knows or fined his/her talent. Search for it. Also every body came out to this world to do something. No one came in any, of course there is a specific thing for everyone to do; it may be small or big but you have to believe it's important. If you were useless, you wouldn’t have been alive now!!
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