'Success' in life is something completely different from 'success' in academia. The later probably requires one to be quite intelligent, the former, not necess

'Success' in life is something completely different from 'success' in academia. The later probably requires one to be quite intelligent, the former, not necessarily, it'd be just one of many advantages. Throw in the creativity and propensity to think or daydream, frankly I don't know how many professors could do anything else with their lives. We all know profs who literally would put ties on backwards.