[wooyi]

v. late reply. Was busy working:-) There is a lot of empirical research that attribute grit, perseverance, practice to success. The best and most "successful" creatives, are also the ones that started the earliest, are the most productive (worked the hardest),.. http://pmarchive.com/age_and_the_entrepreneur.html

More anecdotal research like the 10000 hour "rule" for mastering a skill,... also state the same thing.

Sure you can be born rich and this doesn't apply to you.

But most people aren't born rich, so, what is available to them is hard work.

Ok, I'm going back to work now. Thanks for listening

[TeMPOraL]

The examples and research you provided relate to people basically doing what they like/want, not working somewhere only because they need to earn their bread. Those are two different kinds of "work" and this article was against the second, and for the first kind.