make effort and you can grow/master your talent. read about most popular athlets/musicans,etc how they achieve and become who they are. (like Michael Jordan, or very popular jazzman can't remeber his name)

Talent is great...it gives people an advantage. However, what use is a talent without effort?. The people who apply 100% effort will always do better than those who simply have talent but make no effort. That's my 50 cents worth!

I think that it's related to whether you are male or female. Australian studies in maths ability found a tendency for teachers to attribute female student’s success to effort and male student’s success to talent. in math, that these attributions of effort to female students were not influenced by the actual amount of work done and improved grades, and had no effect on test scores. When teachers perceive that students are performing highly, the students’ self-concepts of math ability improved over the course of the year. I have also found that in my profession female teachers have to work much harder to get a promotion than males.

of course they both must co-operate! but if i will have to choose one than will certainly choose "talent"! because your efforts can be increased but not talent!

Who laugh last is the best laugh. So, efforts should be more important than talent. In general, women are 2-3 years more mature than men in their growing age. It is likely that the flowers which started to grow sooner and die sooner. Madam Jura mentioned that the female students are the symbol of talent (effort takes no effect), then the symbol of efforts must go to male students. She found that in her profession female teachers have to work much harder to get a promotion than males. It is foreseeable.