Motivation vs Talent

“Champions aren’t 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 skill.”  - Muhammad Ali

If you want to become an expert in a certain field, do you need to have more talent or more motivation?

“Who dares, wins.” Alex pang said, “Alas! If you could see what I see when I look at you.” The loftiest of the masterpieces of the world did once been brew in the minds and hearts of individuals and their embodiment in flesh was only the manifestation of a dogged, inexorable will that obliterated even the most domineering of the obstacles. Yes it is true that motivation is superior to talent in that it engenders the latter.

The Indian intellectual giant who shook the world with his mesmerizing intellect was Dr. A.P.J Kalam. A man in rags who had no sophisticated luxuries to cajole him dreamt of achieving something grandiose and in course did out-step the expectations of the world. Bob proctor, Albert Einstein (labelled by his teachers as a student incompetent to study) and the like were all at inceptions a dew drop in the vast ocean of life, barely noticed, but by their sheer ‘audacious will’ they accomplished that which the so–called talented scholars called impossible.

Mystics such as Neveille Goddard and Abrahm Hicks have ever since taught us to treat the external world is an extension of the psychological world that we create. “All that befalls a man is his own doing.” “As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.” It is upon the likeliness of the image that one holds of oneself, that he or she molds himself or herself into. The root cause of all action can be found by the digging into the immensely fecund land of one’s mind.

Like wright brothers each innovation has inevitably to pass through the bitter pangs of acrid pans, followed contemptuous mockery and finally through acclaim unabated! The most fragile and momentous moments are when one’s efforts are severely chastised. It is in these moments that a talented man may, of lack of motivation and will, stoop lower than the nadir while a meagerly talented man, sanguinely self-motivated, rises higher than the zenith.

Rudyard Kipling rightly said in his didactic poem ‘If’ that “men must never heave a word of his loss” and “must serve his turn long after its gone.” The wheels of talent alone would be gridlocked by the adversities on the perilous path, had it not been for the fuel of motivation to come to its rescue! Motivation has the ethereal might of summoning and shaking the deep-seated talents to life, to raise the ‘Lazerus’ from the dead; however the vice-versa isn’t true!