obsession > talent
Discussion
Obsession leads to talent.
A relief to know
Obsession 🤝 talent = bright orange future
Il lavoro duro batte il talento se il talento non lavora duro.
Nah. Obsession can partly mitigate a lack of talent. But there are _so_ many examples of obsessive people with hardly any talent who just become cranks and achieve nothing. Particularly in fields where math/science knowledge is required.
I repeatedly ran into this when I was doing analog electronics design professionally. I was never that obsessed with it and didn't put in long hours. But because I have some talent and actual math and engineering knowledge, I'd repeatedly fix the designs of people who had put _far_ more effort into it than I ever did.
A hundred hours tinkering can't beat one hour of competent engineering.