Actually, it is not my bar chart, at all. My sister is the psychiatrist in the family. Giving IQ tests is more in her line.
I’m an ecologist/educator. I do tend to work with the gifted and profoundly gifted, though.
You are totally on point when you listed other factors. All of them amount to the desire to actualize the potential that high IQ bestows.
However, minus the IQ, certain areas of human activity are simply not open to success, regardless of desire to achieve.
“However, minus the IQ, certain areas of human activity are simply not open to success, regardless of desire to achieve”
On that we can agree, stare at a higher mathematical problem all one would like, that won’t change a lack of fundamental understanding of how math works in solving it.
As for the mximizing discussion a hat tip to Einstein’s dictum:
“90% of life is showing up”
Indeed, life is ruled by those who simply show up.