Everyone wants to be a genius. And if they can't be, they want the comfort that it's because they're not trying hard enough. I've met some people who were jus

Everyone wants to be a genius. And if they can't be, they want the comfort that it's because they're not trying hard enough. I've met some people who were just anomalies, whose brains worked in "genius mode" naturally, without much of what we would consider "effort." Srinivasa Ramanujan would fall into this category (not saying I met him :). Pretending I could think like them is like pretending I could have synesthesia if I really wanted to. And yes, this article is about doing genius-quality work and not genius-quality thought, but give a single monkey a typewriter and let him have at it...and he'll eventually produce the works of Shakespeare too. Genius lies in the ability to produce relatively "genius-quality" work in less time and fewer resources than it would take the average man. The author seems to want to normalize time and effort across the board for everyone.