We are so used to attributing success to ‘Talent’ that many other faculties or capabilities that are way more required to survive & contribute take lesser priorities. Note: Definition of what ‘success’ means requires a separate discussion.
Credit is long overdue to traits such as Street smartness, High EQ, Discipline, Intuitiveness, Resilience, People connect, Intensity of desire etc. There is a finiteness to human’s tangible intelligence. Miracles have happened when one has gone beyond the realm of reasoning. It’s said that Ramanujam’s math magic was more intuitive than a long logical derivation.
Talent doesn’t function to its fullest potential in the absence of a consistent right eco-system. Hard work only pays under right conditions when the closed-loop mill of Talent, Opportunity, Drive and Recognition keeps running at a decent speed. Deficit of any one of the above can make the mill unsustainable, taking a sure shot hit on the longevity. To add to the chaos – Not all the above are under one’s control always.
It takes some amount of IQ & wisdom to figure out what is and what isn’t under one’s scope of operation. This is again unique to each individual and can’t be a borrowed knowledge but has to come genuinely from the chaotic churning that happens within the head and heart space of an individual
At times, talent needs some amount of brazenness to be a wild child claiming that it’s his/her world and rest of the universe is just living there. For it to know what mask to wear, when and how to – can organically happen with experience and exposure, provided one is open to experiment. Also, talent should have a sound psychological infrastructure to digest and perceive the conditioned definition of any fiasco in right spirits and redefine failure using fantastic vocabulary of its own.
How any particular person understands and senses things happening to him/her and the world around decides how peaceful and focused his/her mind can be. Also, smart enough to know what to ignore and how to be impermeable to anything that can damage the spirits. But, at the same time not tending to become way too wary and calculative. The splendid sensitivity and peak perception are responsible for the organic flow of creativity. In a nut shell, it boils down to age old cliché – ‘balance extremes’ of any impactful terrific trait that one may possess
Also, right proportion of rawness and reasoning can help talent interpret situations in a way that can be inspiring rather than go with the society decided conclusions. Free of formulas is what makes the ride fast and furious. It’s never about the dream or the chase – it’s always who we become while running behind it. Once we are assured of who we have become and becoming then destination seems like a myth. We realize magic is in jazzing up the journey.
Also, the lethal winning combo was, is and will always be when talent and timing tune perfectly – lady luck will always rule the roost. So, if you see someone at a position of giving, then take it as given that it’s never just about the talent that concerned person possess but a long queue of other queer qualities that have taken turns to play out at the right moments in balanced proportion.