>I don't think anyone believes this (correct me if I'm wrong). While not exactly what you wrote, people do think that someone is a genius at some subject can b

>I don't think anyone believes this (correct me if I'm wrong). While not exactly what you wrote, people do think that someone is a genius at some subject can become a genius at another area with less work than it took for someone in either field to originally become a genius at that field, especially society groups the areas together (so sports star becoming master programmer is far less likely to be believed than chess master becoming master programmer).