So I was having a conversation at work the other day and it somehow reached the topic of intelligence briefly when I mentioned Nikolai Tesla. I think I was making a joke about how the steps we had to follow for a certain are going to have to be documented because we weren't Nikolai Tesla or something and how he could remember entire books and recite them perfectly. My co-worker unironically said "He just trained from a young-age" and that "I think all people are smart but they just don't use it".
We're both working this IT job and he's much better at it then me, he picks up on details so much faster than me, etc and sometimes I actually wonder if I am going to get fired for incompetence. He's smarter than me yet denies the overwhelming evidence that IQ is just a genetic thing that you have little to no control over.
So I made this weird idea in my head and wanted to ask if you guys experienced a similar occurrence in your life:

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