For me it is required to be a master of both things like of course you can not have experience if you are not going to try and some people would think it's a waste of their time if they are doing what they know already like repeating their work over and over again. So it should be in a balance.
Being a strategic is much more great than being a smart even if being a smart can really help you financially and intellectually because tou are reallly good at those thing but if you are strategic even if you are not great ar it you can find a lot of ways in order.to gain money and tou are nor relying to what your knowledge can do but in what yourselves can really do because it is a matter of actual work rather than intellectual thing.