Hard Work Beats Talent

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We talk about mathematics, hard work, and talent. Do you have any advice or opinions? If so, please leave a comment below.
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Talent often means that you began working hard at the age of 5. Mozart was indeed talented, but his father trained him starting at the age of 4. I used to think that one individual was extremely talented, only to discover that he had started at the age of 3 with a talented father who was an expert in the field. In contrast, I began at 23 on my own, when the neuroplasticity of my brain was already diminished. Therefore, talent doesn’t exist in the way we often think it does.

alevyts
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I was bad at math throughout my life and school. I failed statistics twice until I passed with a C on my 3rd attempt. I also failed Financial math in college. My tutor worked with me through my algebra classes. Yet, I still managed only to get Cs. I got a D in Geometry too.
I said to myself... ENOUGH. I went all the way back to Kindergarten to study "counting" and to figure out where I went wrong?
6 months later -- through sheer grit and determination(studying 8 hours per day) now I'm up to pre-calculus. If I can do it anyone can. All it takes is a lot of hard work and practice. Do it a million times until you cannot get it wrong👍

tz
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If you focus on yourself, if you focus on how much knowledge you have gained, try to gain more knowledge and understand more than yesterday, you will be the happiest. Dont set your aim as to compete with anyone. You should be your own competition and that way you will be satisfied and successful

sreedathpr
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In graduate school, I met a lot of "talented" fellow students. They loved to tell you just how talented and right they were and how unintelligent many around them were, including their highly successful professors who clocked in over three decades of experiences and had a demonstrable track record. The amazing thing was that without exception all of these oh-so "talented" people at best barely graduated and many of them failed out of graduate school after three years, many not even getting a terminal masters. Sometimes, it is just psychologically more pleasing for some to think they are talented and lazy and use the latter self-acknowledged trait as the reason why the former trait for which little evidence ever existed never was realized. Bottom line, just shut-up and work. If you have talent, it will show on its own merit and if your goal is to have it acknowledged, especially by intelligent people, it will be. Most worthwhile things take time and persistence and talent is a highly subjective thing that also if we are honest something that evolves in ability as you grow. There will always be that one guy that sees the gist of a proof or gets to the proverbial finish line faster than you. Then there are some that might take longer but build something truly unique and deep. Just be you and keep grinding and enjoy the ride on the way to achieving the goal. The rest points along the way are often were real growth happens and you should pay attention to them and not dismiss them as negative disruptions. Some of the best learning insights come from "failures." So again, pay attention and "fail" up towards your goal.

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David Goggins and Math Sorcerer so much in common. Elite athlete psychology

Morris_
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I have a friend who is quite talented but was downcast because of this on a completely different level. I told him many years ago his hard work is more to his credit than a thousand talents to those who have them. If it’s a gift you can’t take credit for it. Thank you for the video

vadimkokielov
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I think that working hard is also something special, rarely people have it

adem.
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I think it's important to understand what talent means as a human. I understand talent as an inherent form of intuitive thinking that drives an individual towards their strengths. It becomes clear that you cannot force the same level of intuitive processing of information across every field for every scenario. Rather, applying the individual's inherent intuition combined with their lived experience to pivot within their field and specialize from a different perspective. Tailor your hard work to your intuition, your perspective, and you'll realize that you were talented in your own way the entire time.

IanMcLaurin
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I like that you mention learning disabilities. I have always been very talented in math but my younger brother has dyscalculia and he works way harder than me but maxes out around 7th grade math (that’s being generous because in some cases, the bare fundamentals can’t click)

SavvySaxy
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It’s a general truth, the gifted can also work less hard and achieve the same results that a really hard worker does. But yes, hard work will never fail you.

znhait
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I just finished Passing Cal 2, Phyics 038 and Statics.

t-qz
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J'aime bien ce monsieur.grâce à lui j'ai beaucoup progressé en mathématiques

abdoulnasser
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Nearly failed high school calculus ~60% final grade, then bout 4 years later I took university calculus 2. Worked hard and got 100% on the final exam, highest in the class. Hard work always prevails.

JMac___
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Working hard is good, but working smart is better. That is closest thing for an average person to reach talent.

DarthZeromus
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As a guy who just finished all required math for my Comp Engineering degree, can confirm. I’m a dumbass but I put in a lot of time and effort and ended up getting an A in every class. I watched your videos a lot and it helped me to always stay motivated even when it was rough.

timothyryan
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This is so true, I'm personally very bad at maths and I know that even if I studied it non-stop I would never be remotely as good as someone who is gifted. However, I highly value work, because it is simply the best way to succeed in any field, and to me it's not an option to give it all, whatever I do.

But that also poses the question of meritocracy. The first ones are always the most acknowledged, rewarded, praised, as the ones who merit the most because of their "hard word". The problem with that is it would be true if we were all equal, which we're not. In fact, many more people worked as much and would've merited as much but failed, and that's never what we're shown.

So I don't know, maybe sometimes talking about the people who are behind, worked as much but didn't have the capacity to succeed would sometimes relieve them a bit of this idea that success is only about what they do, and if they fail it's completely about their responsibility, which is clearly not always the case despite all the motivating speeches that we constantly hear about that say the contrary.

Axz-xwzz
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Benar juga, kalau dipikir-pikir untuk apa kerja keras agar bisa mengalahkan orang yang bertalenta, itu terasa sia-sia jika sewaktu-waktu ternyata orang itu bekerja keras seperti yang kita lakukan. Melakukan kerja keras untuk diri sendiri adalah solusi yang terbaik, kerja keras karena menyukai hal yang diperjuangkan, terima kasih atas videonya!

debel
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This video came out at the perfect time for me. I've just finished my 3rd semester of computer engineering and I did a lot worse than I expected. Why? I didn't work hard enough and I'm not naturally gifted. During my first 2 semesters I did very very well, in the top 10 students out of 160, but I worked super hard for that. Now, my grades dropped a ton and I even failed 2 of my finals. And you know, it feels bad. I see my classmates, who are always joking around during class, and they get super high grades, and I just got worse. I'll take it as a lesson, and now I know that I need to work harder because not working hard enough is not for me. Thanks for the insights sorcerer!

nataaalia
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As a mathematician I have learned I am talented but not John von Neumann-class. I once took a graduate course on differential geometry and Lie-groups. The professor didn't realize the level of the students, so he put out ridiculously difficult assigments. One took me two days and a 3 page proof to complete. None of the other students completed the assignments. In a following class, the professor asked to see me, and the meeting was about me becoming a graduate-thesis student of his. This experience confirms your belives, that hard work will get you to a very high level of mathematical profficiency.

kennethvalbjoern
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You are such an inspiration for me! Thank you, this is what i needed

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