I seem to recall that after a certain point, around 130, IQ is negatively correllated with 'success'. Also that at one time, the person with the highest IQ in Australia earned her living as a belly dancer.
The very smart, in other words, are very different.
This is definitely the wrong thread in which to bring up that point ;-)
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Sounds a lot like that boy genius, William Sidis, who went from Harvard at age 11 to dropping out of the public eye and working as a machine clerk. He apparently had a unique fascination with train schedules. To each his own, I suppose. I believe the poor guy ended up dying of a brain hemorrhage in his forties.