Penn Jillette : As a kid , I thought the Beatles recorded their songs without a hitch . He says bootleg recordings showed him the mistakes and rigors of creative process . Genius does n't mean doing everything right the first time , he says . It had The Beatles trying different tempos , different lyrics and different ideas . It means being able to do something over again with different people in order to get it perfect. My friend Tim Jenison showed process in detail as he tried to paint a Vermeer .
Penn Jillette : As a kid , I thought the Beatles recorded their songs without a hitch . He says bootleg recordings showed him the mistakes and rigors of creative process . Genius does n't mean doing everything right the first time , he says . It means being able to do something over again with different people in order to get it perfect. My friend Tim Jenison showed process in detail as he tried to paint a Vermeer .