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+Effortless genius?
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+ 
+:date: 2023-10-02T16:38:13
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
+ 
+(my comments on “`Is Hermione actually that smart?`_” by `/u/sullivanbri966`_)
+
+`/u/VisenyaMartell`_:
+
+    I heard someone once claim that she is ‘a genius through
+    effort, not an effortless genius.’
+
+I don’t think there is such thing as an effortless genius. Thomas
+Alva Edison (who could be easily qualified as a genius himself)
+said somewhere (`the source is difficult to find`_): “Genius is
+one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
+
+There is also his statement, that “Opportunity is missed by most
+people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”,
+which is quite unpleasant when you think about it.
+
+`/u/Ch1pp`_:
+
+    Your argument could just as easily say we all made an effort
+    to start breathing after we left the womb so nothing we do is
+    effortless. I'd say genius is more sporadic rather than being
+    a culmination of life experience to the point where one
+    becomes “a genius”.
+
+I am not saying there are no geniuses in the world who come with
+unexpected and awesome and change the whole world’s understanding
+of the point (I had a great honour to have of those in my life
+even), but what I am saying is that behind that a short moment of
+brilliance there is usually A LOT of work, and that without that
+work that brilliance would not show up.
+
+I like what both `Robert Heinlein`_ (also `this summary`_) and
+`Ray Bradbury`_ (essay, not the collection) are unanimous in
+their writing advice (using Bradbury’s words; both of these are
+certainly geniuses in their world): write five thousand words
+every day ready to be published, and after ten or so years doing
+so (and being published), you may actually write a story or two,
+which are what you want to write.
+
+I have here a letter from my grandfather `Jiří Trnka`_ who
+bitterly complained that his very good friend `Jan Werich`_ (a
+very famous Czech actor) is too lazy and too comfortable in his
+success, so he will not probably do anything good in his later
+years. Which was actually true: Werich made the last great things
+in the 1950s’ and then he just drifted without doing much for the
+next thirty years.
+
+.. _`/u/VisenyaMartell`:
+    https://www.reddit.com/user/VisenyaMartell/
+
+.. _`/u/Ch1pp`:
+    https://www.reddit.com/user/Ch1pp/
+
+.. _`/u/sullivanbri966`:
+    https://www.reddit.com/user/sullivanbri966/
+
+.. _`Is Hermione actually that smart?`:
+    https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/16xxg6b/comment/k358tg6/?context=3
+
+.. _`the source is difficult to find`:
+    https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison#1900s
+
+.. _`Robert Heinlein`:
+   https://archive.org/details/n.t.-revista-nota-do-tradutor-24/page/126/mode/1up
+
+.. _`this summary`:
+   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Writing_of_Speculative_Fiction
+
+.. _`Ray Bradbury`:
+   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_in_the_Art_of_Writing
+
+.. _`Jiří Trnka`:
+   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Trnka
+
+.. _`Jan Werich`:
+   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Werich