If I had a choice between talent or willpower and long term enthusiasm, I’d take the latter every time.
When you have more perseverance than others who are more talented or intelligent, you will win – when they quit or lose interest.
Do you have perseverance?
I really felt the need to comment on this. I have been a horseman my whole life. When I was 20 I got a horse that was an ex ranch horse. All my friends and trainers told me he was no good, he could only do what he was trained to do etc. I spent the next 10 years of my life proving them wrong. With a lot of hard work and dedication and the help of some of my very good friends I not only turned him into an English equitation horse I turned him into a winner. And to this day of all the horses I owned (some pretty expensive well bred ones) he was the one that I remember as having the most heart and stamina. The one I think the most fondly of. If you believe in something or someone you should never quit.