[janus]

Becoming an expert at something is hard. Training requires a lot of mental and phisycal effort, and not a lot of people are willing to sweat it.

I believe that in order to stay motivated to become an expert, you need to have a clear goal. Why do you want to go the gym everyday? Why would you spend hours after office researching and learning about new technology? If you can't define the why, you will probably fail.

[dos1]

Agree with your first sentence. Being an expert takes loads of effort. For some that effort is work, for others it's fun, but no matter what it takes time and determination.

What I see more and more of these days is (in the Midwest of the U.S. anyways) parents are not teaching the value of effort to their children. Their children end up being lazy and entitled, never knowing what it truly takes to be good at anything.