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The people you think are very intelligent are usually not outside the standard deviation, and if they are then not by much.

What the top performers in all fields have in common is that they made a decision at some point in their lives to truly go all in on being the best at a particular thing, and that takes sacrifices that you probably don't want to make, and there's nothing wrong with that. There is no shame in not being a high performer and just being generally okay at everything.

This is mostly ignoring the true outliers with very high IQs, but that is such a huge anomaly statistically that there is no use even discussing it. It is not the norm among even the most successful entrepreneurs or fortune 500 CEOs or endowed chairs of Computer Science.