> Focus on the stuff we can control and ignore the noise? Isn’t that one of the hallmarks of supposedly high IQ people? Isn’t the opposite usually held to be t

> Focus on the stuff we can control and ignore the noise? Isn’t that one of the hallmarks of supposedly high IQ people? Isn’t the opposite usually held to be the case? The groups you would typically associate with impractical learning for its own sake (university professors, public intellectuals, novelists, etc) are seen as smart cookies