I really hope there's a good deal of fantasy into this story. Gladwell, in his great book Outliers, argues that IQ is only related to success to some extent: a

I really hope there's a good deal of fantasy into this story. Gladwell, in his great book Outliers, argues that IQ is only related to success to some extent: above the intelligence level that allows you to get a MSc without great difficulties (this is obviously a fuzzy metric), adding much more doesn't have a big impact. Other factors (was programming your hobby at 16 and you got access to a workstation when it was not common?) make the difference.