>>Why do you correlate smartness with feebleness?<<
I don't. I just like to exploit stereotypes. 8^>
Funny thing is, though, that most people are endowed pretty much equally. That is, A guy whos brain is extremely adept at hand eye coordination (gifted three point shooter) is usually less so in the study of fluid dynamics.
The converse tends to be true as well.
Another truth I have observed, especially in women, is that the more beautifull they are (universally accepted), the less they have had to depend on attributes other than their physical appearance to get what they want in life. I am talking "natural" beauty here, not plastic surgery and silicone, which weren't available back "in the day."
Oh, and neither were Zig Ziegler or Brian Tracy.
The parents of cave kids weren't particularly adept at the higher concepts of long term goal setting and motivational teaching - it was about getting what you want and, at it's core, survival.
It was not until the last hundred years or so that raw survival was not first and formost in the minds of most human beings that inhabited this planet. It is still first and formost for most, come to think about it.
But you gotta love that comment about evolution working "extra hard," heh, heh.
I don't think such things correlate at all. A gifted 3-point shooter is exactly as likely as anyone else in the population to be gifted at fluid dynamics too (though he may get less chance to show it and have less reason to work his academic skills up to their potential because of the marketability of his ball skills)
Some of the smartest people I've ever met were also good athletes.