The Most Successful People Are Not the Most Talented
Nothing will block you from what you really want to do when you realize this.
The other day, I read a study by MIT Technology Review that Darius Foroux shared. The study analyzed the relationship between smartness and success and concluded that the most successful people are not the most intelligent ones but just the luckiest.
“The same is true of effort, as measured by hours worked. Some people work more hours than average, and some work less, but nobody works a billion times more hours than anybody else.” — Emerging Technology from the arXiv
Although I agree that people’s success has nothing to do with how intelligent or talented they are or how hard they work, I believe that something else influences how much they achieve in the long term, and it’s not luck; it’s how consistent they are over time.
To me, you can achieve the same success as many people if you are consistent enough in your goals.
Think about anything you want to achieve.
It can be as simple as fitness, as creative as having an account with thousands of followers on a social network, or as ambitious as an established company.
