As Alan Kay noted, the right point of view can add 80 IQ. I was in a quantitatively heavy field and always felt out classed by those with strong physics and mat

As Alan Kay noted, the right point of view can add 80 IQ. I was in a quantitatively heavy field and always felt out classed by those with strong physics and maths backgrounds. Nevertheless I published to papers in Nature journals and overturned about 10 years of high profile research, not because I was smarter but because I spent more time trying to find the right perspective and when I found anomalies instead of brushing over it, confident in my own intelligence, I instead drilled down until I found the root of the problem — something that everyone else had overlooked. You don’t need to be a classical genius to make a contribution but you probably do have to be tenacious.