I blogged before about how hard work is something of a misnomer, since work is just work and hard work doesn't mean you work harder but rather that you work more. I've been looking a lot into the subject lately, and learned a lot more on that. I'm standing by my original assessment, of course, but I think I'll go into the specifics of that in this post.
It's not through working more, but working in small increments over a longer period, through which practice achieves perfection. You see immediate results, meaning quality of work improves immediately, but it takes a while to get to the point where you can truly blow them out of the water. You have to look pro, instead of just talented amateur, in order for people to truly take notice.
It's about work ethic, above all, including talent or intelligence. Work ethic is king. There's more here than just constant practice, though that's what it is, in a sense-- practice is honing of skills, or in other words, learning to control them. So it's about self mastery. Work ethic is achieved thusly:
Work doggedly at the things that you don't feel like doing yet know must be accomplished. Improve your talents, but remember to work on the things you're not so talented at. It's the fact that you learned to work at something you weren't good at that will set you apart from the pack, not the fact that you were already naturally good at something. Everyone has talents. Even you. (Congratulations!) But you need to learn to pick up the slack on the things you don't want to do. It is through this that we become l'uomo universale.
If that makes sense. That's just going the surefire route on learning a good work ethic. You study the pursuits that don't interest you at first, and not only do you learn a work ethic and learn to control your skills, you also become skilled at a multiplicity of things.
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