I agree. The totem of “if you work hard, you can be anything” is patently false. What should be said  is: “if you work really really hard on yourself, you can find who you are at your best and be that.”,(reply>), Yea, and if you have rich parents, you too can become President... Just like the 'very stable genius' Donald Trump or George W.<br>ROFL!<br>Freakn silver spoons ruined our politics and news media...,(reply>), Working hard also helps<br><br>And working on yourself also requires working hard, which is somewhat genetically determined, so you can't escape working hard one way or another, regardless of your natural inclination,(reply>), @Daarom explicit knowledge has nothing to do with eye queue.,(reply>), Do both.,(reply>), @FifaSucks reminds of what Joscha says about high IQ people. They don't "get" things intuitively so their brains are forced to create explicit (formalized) models of casual phenomena. The only reason this is perceived as more intelligent is because our education system and tests are 99.9% based on explicit knowledge. This is why psychologists are always so surprised about findings that seem completely trivial to people with good social skills.