Can You Get Genius Results With Just Hard Work? No | Sightings by Terry Teachout - WSJ.com

WSJ.com: "What do you think of when you hear the word 'genius'? Most of us, I suspect, picture a fellow in a white coat who squints into a microscope, twiddles a knob, and says, 'Eureka! I've found the cure for cancer!' More often than not, though, scientific and creative discoveries are the result not of bolts of mental lightning but of long stretches of painfully hard slogging.