First of all, I am not so famous like the people you mention in your article. By the way, it's a really interesting topic and it catches me. I am a professional Football player(Soccer Player) living and playing in Austria. Exactly I am playing for the club Red Bull Salzburg. Last week we enter the Europe league the second best international season.
Like i mention before I am not as far as famous like the people you mentioned but I am a person standing in public i have fans, I know what it is to write autographs for hours. How people get crazy to touch you.
I am also a believer and I think my talent is God given. But this doesn't mean that this brought me there. No, on the one hand, it's a God given talent, on the other hand, stand our everyday training. To keep working and improve yourself.
You get an influence that has an impact on others but in my opinion, it is often abused. This is only my opinion. There are things going up people wouldn't think about it. Ahhh there is so much to talk about.
I know that being a soccer player in a lot of countries is a big deal being that I am Greek, Italian and Puerto Rican! I think when it comes to sports yes the top athletes work hard but they also have the extra God given talents. Thank you for sharing such a great reply I appreciate it very much :)
World would be very boring if everything unknown would just be gods doing and that's that - the journey for more knowledge and wisdom would always stop before it can even become.
Not all of us can be professional football players even if we'd spent the same amount of time training. But why is that? I'd take a look into evolution before giving up and going for gods work. Your dna isn't the same as mine. When we were born, we already are different. Our ancestors have all travelled different paths and we are the result of all that. But it's up to us what we reach for as is with every generation.