[szany]

What makes ambition/creativity/drive/perspective/attitude/inspiration any more intrinsic than intelligence/knowledge?

[jasonshen]

I think the idea would be that those are more complex traits that will be harder to change through new neural technology (compared to simply learning new information) and thus less likely to change in the medium term.

[renox]

Because a working fool will do more than a sitting genius? I don't remember the saying (English is not my first language).