What matters more to success, talent or hard work? A psychologist explains

It helps to start by seeing talent and effort as two distinct things that can both be developed to achieve more success.

The relationship between talent and effort is rather more complex than people think. Historically, there has been a tendency to regard both variables as independent, and talent is often defined as performance minus effort—the more talent you have, the less effort you need to make to achieve high performance, and vice versa.