I've had a couple of experiences with math olympians. They were both very bright (I don't know how they're not followed by throngs of beautiful ${people who are

I've had a couple of experiences with math olympians. They were both very bright (I don't know how they're not followed by throngs of beautiful ${people who are attracted to men} -- solving compass-and-straightedge problems can be as performative and awe-inspiring as an impressive guitar solo), but they lacked in other hard-to-define areas. They had thin skins for criticism (people like me who have failed in competitions and gotten low grades etc. have a lot more emotional scar tissue) and tended to overestimate themselves. Interestingly, they were never arrogant, they just overpromised a little. They were still valuable workers, but took a strange onboarding process compared to regular dummies (like me) who just want to be the best they possibly can under skull constraints.