It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
- Gertrude Stein
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You just wrote a comment, Amit, and you read the post to do it. That disqualifies you. Now go back and try again, harder. It is really hard to do nothing; most people find it a bit scary and certainly uncomfortable.