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[quote=Anonymous]When it comes to innovation and career-success, people need to get comfortable with "smart enough".  A kid with a 1400 is smart enough to achieve 99% of what a kid with 1600 is able to achieve....most comes to down to individual personality and work ethic.

Yes, the Einstein's of the world are the only ones capable of creating entirely new ways of thought, so there are some things only that gifted 1% or 0.1% can achieve.

Jun Huh won the Fields Medal in Mathematics and was a HS dropout who did poorly in HS Mathematics.  However, he was "smart enough" and found an interest in Mathematics  after taking a class in Mathematics by a noted Mathematician.  Here is just a snippet of his bio:

Early in his studies he was mentored by Japanese Fields medalist mathematician Heisuke Hironaka, who went to Seoul National University as a visiting professor.[1] Having failed several courses, Huh took an algebraic geometry course under Hironaka in his sixth year which focused on singularity theory and was based on Hironaka's current research rather than established teaching material. Huh credited the course with sparking his interest in research-level math.[6] Huh then proceeded to complete a master's degree at Seoul National University, while frequently travelling to Japan with Hironaka and acting as his personal assistant.[6] Due to his poor academic record as a undergraduate, Huh was rejected from all but one of the American universities that he applied to. He started his Ph.D. studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2009, before transferring in 2011 to the University of Michigan,[6] graduating in 2014 with a thesis written under the direction of Mircea Mustață at the age of 31.[8] He was awarded the Sumner Byron Myers Prize for his PhD thesis.[9][/quote]

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