Sarah Hargreaves

Do you believe in fate/destiny?

In most cases, people think believing in destiny/fate means that we don’t need to work hard to achieve our goals as they have always been pre determined.

I think I have the opposite stance. I can’t help but feel that I am destined to be more and I am not living up to the expectation that the universe has for me. This creates pressure. I am trying to turn this into a more positive form of intrinsic motivation.

It’s like talent. Do you believe in ‘natural talent’? I do believe that some people are more genetically likely to be better at things than others. But is talent enough to be successful in that given field? No, absolutely not.

Talent combined with hard work and opportunity is the recipe for success.

Can we change the word opportunity to the word destiny?

Talent combined with hard work and some measure of fate is the recipe for success.

Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Outliers’ explains this far better than I do.