Talent vs Attitude

The other day, my wife and I were having a stroll in a park near my home and were talking about "talent" and "attitude".

From my experience in IT, I feel that it is very important to have an attitude to solve a problem than talent.

I had worked with many developers - some of them were born talented but got relaxed over time and I find it very difficult to work with such people. On the other hand, there were developers that never bothered about the type of work but always have enjoyed the work. This set of people derive motivation from the work that they do and always try out newer approaches even while performing a repetitious task.

When I interview candidates for my projects, I always look for people that have an attitude to work over talent and this decision helped me survive with reasonable amount of success.

Needless to say - Talented people with an attitude to work is definitely a perfect choice at work :-)