[motohagiography]

it's easy to be altruistic when you can see others as different and not a threat or competition, when their success does not come at a cost to yours. the blunted emotional engagement of many savants may have protected them from internalizing attempts to discourage them and given them the extra focus to learn things. most of what we call intelligence is the downstream effect of attitude to learning imo.

personally I find malice too stupid to take personally, but am not smart enough to orchestrate deceptions the way I've seen smarter and more successful people operate. just comfortably mid. also, intelligence above a certain level, like wealth, is best kept a secret. it is often observed that mine is hidden quite cunningly.