This is what the grinders tell themselves. They still get beaten regularly (
not all the time) by those with superior native talent.
Those people don't focus as you suggest, and they still win. The NFL MVP last year could certainly have been an MLB MVP, had he chosen to go that way. When he quit college baseball, he was told by pro baseball players (e.g. A-Rod) that he was "wasting his baseball talent". Patrick Mahomes was born with a lot of native talent, so his time spent playing baseball didn't hurt him...
It's fine to play sports, but only so long as it's fun. If it ain't fun, you don't have enough native talent for it, and you're wasting your time.
(This isn't the case for other competitions that don't attract so many competitors. In those cases, sure, grind if you want.)
It's fine to play sports, but only so long as it's fun. If it ain't fun, you don't have enough native talent for it, and you're wasting your time.
(This isn't the case for other competitions that don't attract so many competitors. In those cases, sure, grind if you want.)