{"id":4741,"date":"2025-04-27T17:35:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T17:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2025-04-27T17:35:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T17:35:41","slug":"talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/daily-thoughts\/talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Discipline is also a talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who say talent doesn&#8217;t matter are liars.<\/p>\n<p>Those who stop at talent are failures.<\/p>\n<p>Federer said it best:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Yes, talent matters. I\u2019m not going to stand here and tell you it doesn\u2019t.<br \/>\nBut talent has a broad definition.<br \/>\nMost of the time, it\u2019s not about having a gift. It\u2019s about having <strong>grit<\/strong>. In tennis, like in life, <strong>discipline is also a talent<\/strong>. And so is patience.<br \/>\nTrusting yourself is a talent. Embracing the process\u2014loving the process\u2014is a talent. Managing your life, managing yourself.<br \/>\nThese can be talents, too. Some people are born with them. Everybody has to work at them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who say talent doesn&#8217;t matter are liars. Those who stop at talent are failures. Federer said it best: Yes, talent matters. I\u2019m not going to stand here&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4743,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions\/4743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}