Your tone almost makes it sound like you disagree with me, even though my comment agrees with yours. I'm well aware of the research that shows that people who

Your tone almost makes it sound like you disagree with me, even though my comment agrees with yours. I'm well aware of the research that shows that people who believe effort is more important than talent are more successful than those who think the opposite. People like to pretend the research show that the effort-believers are right. That hasn't been shown. If you control for IQ, the hard workers win. This is not controversial. The recent research was carefully presented to give the impression that it said more than it did. Despite what effort-believer think, IQ is highly correlated with success. However, we can apprehend the world rationally and still believe in hard work. I work extremely hard. My IQ isn't going up, but I can control my effort.