>>13991381Why would you move away from value academics by their contributions to the body of science
There are plenty of high IQ people who are entirely useless and a net-negative to society because they have no discipline or aspirations, and will work menial jobs and die having added a service job to the world
When I was in grad school, I trained quite a few undergrads. I can tell you that the only successful ones were the ones who asked dumbshit but necessary questions and worked their asses off. My best undergrad, no goes to UCSF, asked like 50 questions a day. If I had to guess, I'd say she had average IQ, and didn't make obscure connections like some people, but she worked damn hard and by the end knew almost everything I knew and probably more, because she extracted as much information as possible out of me with questions.
I had plenty of 4.0 GPA-ers who passed through, they were quiet and didn't ask questions, and were pretty low on the self-discipline. Unless I told them verbatim everything to do, they would basically not do anything. One left science, not sure where they went, I think the other is a vet tech but doesn't want to be a vet.
Self-motivated and hard worker >>>>>>> literally anything else. hard worker + mid-tier IQ >>>>>> high-IQ, bar-none. Results are all that matter.
