I didn’t like homework that much because there was so much of it. But if I look back, I probably learned the most doing homework. I was alone, concentrating better and having to figure out how to get the homework done. In college homework was the workhorse of my acquired knowledge.

I think it is quite clear that being inately smart could cause quite a setback as one thinks they don’t need to work hard and winging it would do it. It turns into a bad habit and eventually one falls behind and stays there.