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this is a great question and, IMO, there's a great answer when you make something, the cleverness is no longer inside your head – it's now outside of you. you can walk around it, grasp it, fiddle with it, mess with it tinkering allows you to "be" more clever than you "are" https://t.co/Vj8KqJNxbe
that is the gift of the creative process! and it's a big part of the joy of making things. with chance + tinkering, you'll make things that are "smarter" than you! and in reverse engineering it, you *become* "smarter" than you were before! https://t.co/ljBOoM94Cu
You can end up producing smart work *entirely* by accident, and still own it because you recognized it. It’s yours! That’s the gift that the creative process just gives you sometimes. You can then study and reverse-engineer this, and wow, you just got smarter as a result
so the misplaced assumption is "if you're as clever as you can be". bc you can almost always get smarter, particularly by tinkering with things at the limits of your abilities & if it's not working – enlist friends! find mentors! get feedback from others! there's always a way