[mindcrime]

It's interesting... there's an anecdote floating around out there somewhere about a famous wrestling coach (quite likely Dan Gable[1]) talking to a group of young wrestlers and telling them something approximately like:

"Most of you have the genetics to be an Olympic wrestler. But most of you don't have the work ethic".

Of course that's just an amusing anecdote and there's no reason to think that Dan Gable is an expert on genetics. But it's something to think about.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Gable

[maxerickson]

And what if the personality traits that feed into "work ethic" have a strong genetic component?

[mindcrime]

That's possible. That's one reason I don't take this quote as gospel or anything. Like I said, it's just food for thought.

As far as that goes, we don't even know for sure that we have free will and that we ever actually make any decisions at all. Maybe the whole universe it totally deterministic. I mean, it's hard to see an explanation of how it isn't so. That said I prefer (well, I think I prefer) to believe that we do have free will.