The thing that has always puzzled me is if one's opinion on "talent vs hard work" is actually correlated to one's amount of talent.
There has been some research on this. Maybe I can open a thread sometime with some link to a good article on this issue. Meanwhile, I am reminded of pg's statement in his essay "What You'll Wish You'd Known"
"I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right."
There has been some research on this. Maybe I can open a thread sometime with some link to a good article on this issue. Meanwhile, I am reminded of pg's statement in his essay "What You'll Wish You'd Known"
http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html
"I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right."