Genuine creative achievements depend more on perseverance over the long haul than on prodigious childhood skills. At school, Charles Darwin was an unexceptional child. George Stephenson became a great engineering genius despite never getting any schooling at all until he began learning to read at eighteen. Many prodigies do not become especially productive adults. Although geniuses are truly remarkable, their feats are neither miraculous nor mysterious.
Nobody is born a genius.
Most geniuses have made enormous efforts to equip themselves with special qualities. They all work extremely hard. To believe otherwise is to sell geniuses short by undervaluing their truly heroic accomplishments. The Bront sisters did not suddenly begin writing great novels. They perfected their writing skills through intense preparation.