> and the number one female poker player in the world If the author was that then contrary to the thesis of their blog post they are an outlier in that they ha

> and the number one female poker player in the world If the author was that then contrary to the thesis of their blog post they are an outlier in that they have unusually high raw mental power / intelligence in at least some dimensions of intelligence. This means that, in fact, other people cannot follow in their footsteps because those other people are not lucky enough to have a brain like hers. The reason they don't have a brain as good as hers might be genetics but is much more likely to be that they didn't have educated parents with books on the shelves who established a culture and expectations of academic achievement. In other words, sorry, but TFA is the same tired old right wing bullshit / American Dream crap of anyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps if they work hard enough. (And I'm saying that as a wokery-hating centre-rightist!)