Oh I've been waiting for this series! I have met a very small number of individuals who seemingly had an iron will. Number one is a scientist and a very successful one. Number two I met during my years of martial arts training and I can say he wasn't that advanced, still fighting with him was very different from everyone else I met and number three was a former boss who followed his own agenda with an iron will and subordinated everything to that indeed. Despite the collateral damage he caused, he was very successful in what he did. I think even if you had wanted to stop him (for whatever reason) it would have been close to impossible. All three guys are machines!

Definitely: Talent, intelligence education and luck seem to be secondary if you're determined (maybe that's one more reason why the orange guy has the impact on the just-do-it's he has?). If you have many talents, that can even be an obstacle at times and I consider myself a good example for that. In most of the things I do, I can be better than average with little effort or training - yet obtaining a certain level of mastery with a specific skill or completing one specific task can take a very long time if I try to pursue several threads at the same time. That can be frustrating and in fact leads close to nowhere many times, but sometimes t doesn't seem vain - there seem to be two different strategies: Focusing your will as intensely as possible on one goal for a limited time or dispersing it to a much wider (but well defined) range for an extended period of time without losing too much power. Does that make any sense from your perspective?

Greetings,
Nachtgurke