That’s certainly one group, but there’s also a very loud group of people who insist that elites are just normal humans who were allowed to bloom. I think there

That’s certainly one group, but there’s also a very loud group of people who insist that elites are just normal humans who were allowed to bloom. I think there are several reasons here; some are ideologically opposed to the existence of outliers, some are worried about the chilling effect of telling people that no matter how hard they work they’ll never be at Gausses level as a mathematician, and some are comforted that their lack of success isn’t their fault because they weren’t given opportunities.