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The myth of genius and the fallacy of hard worker

There is a compulsive preoccupation among students or undergraduates with the notion that real geniuses don’t have to study much and will still emerge top of the class. And then this prophecy is somehow fulfilled by ‘geniuses’ who prove to their peers that they don’t spend much time studying, after all. From my crude observation, ‘smart’ students are perceived to spend less time studying vs their ‘hardworking’ peers who have to put in more hours only to find their GPA at best on par with the born smart group.