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Keep the selection bias in mind. Sure, there are amazing engineers like that and we get to know that due to the internet. Let's celebrate that and acknowledge that they're extremely rare.

You also rarely learn of the failures of the great engineers. They experience failure just like everyone else.

There's even one other selection bias at play here. This might well be one of the most productive days of them that we're reading about. Not their average output per se.

To be fair to the other end of the spectrum they might be crap at sanitizing Excel spreadsheets and automatically databasing the contained information. Not as sexy, but maybe not less useful.

This makes me feel ashamed of my unending troubles focusing on doing something useful, instead procrastinating way too much.