![]() People with low IQs are just intellectually lazy. Hard work + talent is where the people who shape society come from. Hard work can compensate for lack of inborn talent, but only to a degree. There's winners and losers in any lottery. We all have varying degrees of abilities because it's a genetic lottery. Someone with an IQ of 65 isn't going to become an astronaut. And if you're going to say that isn't true I can name you a dozen names right now of people who've proved you wrong. but everybody can try and with enough hard work anything can be overcome. Of course not everyone is the same and shouldn't all be treated the same. I'm tall, someone else is short, somebody has good eyesight and somebody else is blind. Stories of people who were told they would never walk again because of their injuries, then became Olympic sprinters. All the stories of people who were told they wouldn't live another year, then lived ten. Prodigies do exist and you can't be whatever you want.Īnd if you were really in the medical field then there's no way you could possibly believe that. Originally posted by As someone in the medical field I can tell you that unfortunately we are not all the same. There are only people who try and people who don't. And yes, if you've never heard of me it's because I'm also not trying as hard as I know I should be. but yeah, if no one's ever heard of you a big part of that is that you're not trying as hard as you could. Of course there's still luck and opportunity. well, yeah, that is about the long and short of it. ![]() They're not "special" because they can do things nobody else can do, but rather because they have done things that nobody else has.Īnd I know saying that offends people because it makes them feel like if they don't have a talent it's just because they're not trying hard enough. The same thing is true of Tiger Woods, Stephen Hawking, and all the other so-called "gods" of our society. I'm sure to someone on the outside it all must have looked like magic, but it wasn't. physically I'm clearly built for athletics, but I ended up a squishy nerd anyway because I never cared about strength or speed or hand-eye coordination. And no, this wasn't just some magic of talent and opportunity coming together. I decided I wanted to actually be that smart so I taught myself to read and by the time I was in fifth grade I could read at a college level. When I was in preschool my parents saw me looking at pictures in a book, thought I was reading it, and started telling everyone how smart I was. I know because I developed my own skills the same way. It wasn't the hand of God that made him good at golf, it was himself working hard over his entire life. ![]() He's so good at golf because his father introduced him to golf at age 2 and he stuck with it. But those potentials are not all the same - and the RAL magic is when that potential lines up with opportunity, causing something really great to happen.Īnd I've heard this exact same argument from every person I've ever known who then decided to apply themselves one day and realized it wasn't impossible after all.ĭo you really think Tiger Woods was simply born with a golf club in his hand and all the knowledge he needed? No. The world is full of special people - and I agree, we all have strengths and we all have potential. Or Tiger Wood's golf swing, or your favorite quarterback's ability to throw a football. I'm a pretty smart guy, pretty flexible, but no amount of effort will give me, say, Steven Hawking's understanding of black holes. I respectfull disagree with your reasoning. There are no special people, only people who try and people who don't. I think all humans have equal potential and the only determining factor between electrician, burger flipper, and neurosurgeon is the amount of effort they're willing to put into it. Originally posted by Knight9910:I don't believe humans really work that way. ![]()
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