Keys to success

I have been busy with work, moving and a future wedding, so no postings recently. This post is an idea rolling in my head about people who succeed in a grand manner in life. It is often said hard work and luck create success. I made an earlier posting, Luck or Skill?, about how luck is a requirement towards opportunity. This being said, assume from hereon in this post an individual had the correct doors opened to him/her. Looking around at people I know who do well in life, sometimes it is not apparent they have any great talent or skill. Here is my theory on why this may be the case as I explain the two roads to success.

In any case, a successful person is going to require a baseline competency in a field. Whether that be art, science, athleticism or business. Second, the person is going to have to work (yes, that four letter word appears). Here are the two proper mixes.

Type 1:
Someone who has a tremendous amount of talent and puts it to proper use. They work as needed, but their inherent talent makes required tasks resulting in a simpler overall trip. This is what we typically think of as a successful person. They are really talented and bright. Their superstar abilities are focused in a proper manner resulting in success.

Type 2:
Someone who is competent, but is not highly talented. They are the B students. Each is capable, but does not excel with their talent alone. This is compensated through hard work. We are talking workaholic types here. Along the journey many mistakes are made, but they are minimal in damage because they work their way out of the holes they have dug. I think many business tycoons are of this breed for the sheer fact that business is tough and mistakes are made. It may also explain why some billionaires are ADD or dyslexic.