Genius vs. Smart →
Smart people care what other people think. If you’re smart you probably listen to what your peers say about your work, and you make improvements based on feedback. You tweak and adapt your work until the majority of people who see it like it. That’s just smart.
A creative “genius,” whether a film maker or writer or whatever usually doesn’t care what other people think. They just somehow know that the way they are doing something is the way it should be done, even when people tell them…
