There are so many different factors that must be in place for you to reach your true potential. Many of these skills and values can be learned and some can not. This post by Michael Hyatt was a great read:
Researcher Angela Lee Duckworth studied West Point cadets, National Spelling Bee contestants, teachers in tough schools, and sales peoples, asking who would succeed and why.
“In all those very different contexts one characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success,” she said in a popular TED talk. And it wasn’t the usual suspects. What was it? “It was grit.”
Duckworth defines grit as “passion and and perseverance for very long-term goals … sticking with your future, day in day out.…”