It's sad that you wrote this comment less than a day after writing this:
"When I was a Junior Developer I though I was a genius and knew everything about programming itself, I was not even interested in improving my coding skills, because I thought they were perfect"
Yes, so what? When I was a Junior Developer and knew almost nothing, even back then I could determine that some code is bad because it was unstructured, with bad naming, poor algorithms, etc., because the code was bad objectively, given metrics that do not depend on someone's particular opinion or mentality. I would call the very same code bad today, with all the experience and knowledge.
I don't think I'm a genius, I just think there's a lot of talentless and stupid folks everywhere. And I adore smart talented people, they are such a relief for me, but unfortunately there are not so many of them.
A distinctive work is just a consequence of intellectual superiority.
My problem is that I am very lazy. The actual work someone can make is F * S, where the F is your intellectual power, and the S is how much you have moved towards your target. If the S is close to zero, being a genius does not help. Actually, being a lazy genius does help being at some decent level even without putting too much effort, e.g. when you have the same or better level of expertise as your average colleague, even though you have invested an order of magnitude less time in studying than them, and don't even have a college degree becaming a boss of those who do.
"When I was a Junior Developer I though I was a genius and knew everything about programming itself, I was not even interested in improving my coding skills, because I thought they were perfect"