There’s no question, talent is like getting a kickstart ahead of the rest you are competing with. However, I feel that talent is only one small ingredient to your prowess as a graphic artist.

In fact, talent has a diminishing return to the length one practices their craft, and I do believe that eventually, we all hit a limit that can only be overcome by hard work, experimentation and patience.

And yet, for those that believe they have no talent take heart because even those people with talent end up falling into a working method paradigm that anyone can follow and use to gain experience. While one might think the following post is obvious, it is often the situation that the answers or points of interest are staring us straight in the face.
Thus, I present the 7 habits of high effect junior designers. No, talent isn’t everything.