18-Jan-2012, 8:30 PM
Quote:Kinda true, but what if you're not ready to do such a sacrifice, yet having the potential to be in the elite...
...ok, think of it this way (back to chess, 'cause that's the only sport I'm halfway conversant with). Capablanca had an AMAZING talent. The guy barely studied the game, and yet he demolished most of his opposition.
Imagine, now, that he was born in 1990. He would have NO CHANCE against Magnus Carlsen, etc. Why? Because Carlsen and his peers study openings, etc. Capablanca wouldn't do that, and in 2012, his enormous talent wouldn't make up for his laziness, the way it did in 1921.
All sports/arts/etc. involve some sort of sacrifice. For some, it's putting in more hours of practice than you'd like to. For others, it's the decision to indulge in performance-enhancing drugs...
Quote:In Jr. High School, I would take a gummi bear, squeeze its ears into points so it looked like Yoda, and then I would say to it "Eat you, I will!". And of course then I would it eat.