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What causes great boxers like Ali and Robinson to be great?
If great performance were easy, it wouldn't be rare. Greatness isn't handed to anyone; it requires years and years of hard work. Yet that isn't enough, since many boxers work hard for decades without approaching greatness or even getting significantly better. What's missing?
Perhaps its inborn talent then? Certainly some important traits are partly inherited, such as physical size and particular measures of intelligence; a five-footer will never be a heavyweight champion, and a seven-footer will never be a lightweight great. But then there are those who has the crucial ingredients of speed and power, but still comes up short. Wasted talent?
Perhaps you need luck. To be born with the physical attribute, be propelled by your environment to practice hard at an early age, so by the time you reached adulthood, you have racked up at least a decade of experience. Is it a case of being at the right place, at the right time?
So, what causes greatness?
If great performance were easy, it wouldn't be rare. Greatness isn't handed to anyone; it requires years and years of hard work. Yet that isn't enough, since many boxers work hard for decades without approaching greatness or even getting significantly better. What's missing?
Perhaps its inborn talent then? Certainly some important traits are partly inherited, such as physical size and particular measures of intelligence; a five-footer will never be a heavyweight champion, and a seven-footer will never be a lightweight great. But then there are those who has the crucial ingredients of speed and power, but still comes up short. Wasted talent?
Perhaps you need luck. To be born with the physical attribute, be propelled by your environment to practice hard at an early age, so by the time you reached adulthood, you have racked up at least a decade of experience. Is it a case of being at the right place, at the right time?
So, what causes greatness?
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