You will only be such a scholar if it interests you, and if the approval of othe

You will only be such a scholar if it interests you, and if the approval of others means something to you, and your creativity is limited to patiently serving others. There are many interests competing for your attention, some of us want to control our applied creativity, and some of us couldn’t care less what others think, or delay gratification serving others academic ambitions. To make matters worse some of us develop the ‘fully suite’ earlier or later than others. Some of us just pursue what we want (especially in my generation: Gates, Jobs, Ellison) rather than seek approval necessary for academic performance.
Only after you are quite skilled do you realize that anything that can be tested is of limited innovative value.