Originally posted by YvesM
If you are interested in something you can become very good at it, even if you're not going to be one of the world's best
True, I agree 100%.
I am a chess player (a hobbyist ) and after I lost a game 3 years ago from the Greek chess champion what he said to me was: "Chess is 90% work and 10% talent". This is not obvious to most people.