Reproduced below is an excerpt from a Will Smith interview in the March 2007 issue of Reader's Digest.
Reader's Digest: So getting to where you are is all about running hard?
Will Smith: Most people you are going to be in competition with are not gonna give 100 percent. If you catch a bad day, you are going to run up against someboy willing to do 87 percent. You're still going to win............................When I say I am going to run five kilometers, I run eight. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.
RD: You work harder than the next guy?
Smith: I consider myself to be basically average talent, right? What I have that other people do not have is a sick, obsessive, raw animal drive.
RD: Do you get tired of pushing?
Smith: Not yet. There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that.
Reader's Digest, March 2007
I can strongly relate to the highlighted portion in the excerpt. In my case trying harder is not about showing-off or currying favors, it is my only hope for survival in the face of more talented competition.
Reader's Digest: So getting to where you are is all about running hard?
Will Smith: Most people you are going to be in competition with are not gonna give 100 percent. If you catch a bad day, you are going to run up against someboy willing to do 87 percent. You're still going to win............................When I say I am going to run five kilometers, I run eight. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.
RD: You work harder than the next guy?
Smith: I consider myself to be basically average talent, right? What I have that other people do not have is a sick, obsessive, raw animal drive.
RD: Do you get tired of pushing?
Smith: Not yet. There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that.
Reader's Digest, March 2007
I can strongly relate to the highlighted portion in the excerpt. In my case trying harder is not about showing-off or currying favors, it is my only hope for survival in the face of more talented competition.
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