Divine Genius Does Not Exist

This is a message for students struggling with their semester papers this spring break. 

Here is the gist of it:  

"Taken together, the stories reveal a pattern for how humans make new things, one that is both encouraging and challenging. The encouraging part is that everyone can create, and we can show that  fairly conclusively. The challenging part is that there  is no magic moment of creation. Creators spend almost all their  time  creating,  persevering despite doubt, failure, ridicule, and rejection until they succeed in making something  new and useful. There are no tricks, shortcuts, or get-creative-quick schemes. The process is ordinary, even if the outcome is not.

Creating is not magic but work."