NY Times article suggests that intelligence overrides work ethic

<p>Don’t dis my Beatles, please. But if you want to be intellectually honest, it was Paul who was the perfectionist and behind all the practicing, and was the slave driver behind a lot of their music. John, may he RIP, was more of the goof-off and “that’s good enough.” Having said that, garland’s absolutely right - they were who they were because both were musical geniuses, and that simply had to be inborn.</p>