One more thing is emotional health, it's already pretty known that exercise helps with anxiety and depression. But I disagree about your assertion about intelligence, I think it plays a huge role in academic success.
There are plenty of people with above average intelligence who enjoy below average academic success, and inversely plenty of people with below average intelligence who enjoy above average academic success.
This can happen for a variety of reasons: poverty, nutrition, "misaligned" interests, etc.
Intelligence plays a role in that someone with an IQ of 80 probably isn't going to Stanford, but there are ostensibly plenty of people with IQs far above your average Stanford student who will never set foot in a university.
This can happen for a variety of reasons: poverty, nutrition, "misaligned" interests, etc.
Intelligence plays a role in that someone with an IQ of 80 probably isn't going to Stanford, but there are ostensibly plenty of people with IQs far above your average Stanford student who will never set foot in a university.