Talent is Never Mandatory!

Hey guys, trust you’re cool or at least trying to be cool? Lol! Thanks for reading my post this week, as I emphasize on the importance of Wisdom, Will Power and Interest, over Talent.  So, I like watching British football, and in this edition, I relatively drew my discussion from 2, likely unarguably, best footballers of my generation: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. But let me be quick to make known my personal opinionated assertions about both, on which I will build my discussion!

1.     Both are always mentioned in the same context: the Bests in their field of interest.

2.     Both have shared the annual World Best Player Award in the last 9 years: Messi has won 5, but Cristiano Ronaldo has won 3 of the last 4!

3.     Also, considering their styles of play, Lionel Messi is clearly a bundle of talent, while Cristiano Ronaldo is more of a Power Play, a proof of a conscious effort input over the years, and reports about him have continually shown that.

Thus, for the talented, I will only re-echo that ageless word, “Talent is not enough”; but to the untalented, but interested, I say, “Talent is not mandatory”.  That you are not talented in a “field” of your interest should not determine or limit your success or excellence in the “field”.  Mohammed Ali said, “For champions, the Will must always be greater than the Skill”, while Rich De Voss said, “Persistence is stubbornness with a Purpose”.

Hard work and your Purpose-full Will are the main playing factors that matter; but I should be quick to say that, for me, I no more determine Hard work by what we say we have put in, but what we can show that we have obtained; Hard work has gone beyond the effort, but to the result-proven smartness of the application: Hard work is the Achievement!

Ecclesiastes 10:10 (NASB) says, “If the axe is dull and he does not sharpen its edge, then he must exert more strength. Wisdom has the advantage of giving success”, while, Ecclesiastes 10:15 (KJV) says, “The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city”.

You know, there comes a time when persistent hard work competes with the best of talents; Nay, I mean, a time always come, when persistent hard work rules over the best of talents. “I have seen slaves on horses, and princes walking on the ground like slaves.” - Ecclesiastes 10:7 (ESV);    “Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings; they will not serve before officials of low rank.” - Proverbs 22: 29 (NIV)

So, let me end by asserting that, if talent makes it easier, then Wisdom and Purpose-full Will make it “no work”; you’ve done nothing, till you’ve shown something!

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