{"id":1231,"date":"2013-10-22T18:49:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T01:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2022-06-07T22:39:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T05:39:15","slug":"hard-work-vs-raw-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/hard-work-vs-raw-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Work vs. Raw Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hard work and persistence will take you 90% of the way to greatness; raw talent only accounts for the other 10% of success. Don&#8217;t ever fool yourself into thinking you can just float through on your natural abilities.<\/p>\n<p>Being naturally gifted, in fact, has an interesting effect of putting you at something of a disadvantage. You may feel more complacent if you don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s 100% necessary to practice and work as much as possible. Check out this blog post titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/collections\/201111\/talent-or-hard-work\">&#8220;Talent or Hard Work?&#8221;<\/a> to find out more about this phenomenon.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4060\/4665461114_0619f13b86.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Flickr by hyekab25<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard work and persistence will take you 90% of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songwriting-tips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aST-jR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}