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by left-struck 7 days ago
I really don’t think IQ has much to do with it. Understanding this stuff is like a skill you practice. Yes, granted, if you had a low IQ your chances of ever understanding it goes down, if you have a high IQ maybe you can gain the prerequisite understanding faster.

A lot of maths is about both being able to wrap your head around hard problems and gaining the prerequisite knowledge to make it easier to do so.

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IQ limits your rate of gaining the prerequisite knowledge creating a lifetime ceiling.
For most of their lives, most people have a rate of 0 learning because they aren't even trying to learn it.
Math is literally the most g-loaded thing there is.