I would have thought so too, but perhaps one key difference for IQ outliers is that, to them, inordinate detail-orientation and extreme repetitiveness does not

I would have thought so too, but perhaps one key difference for IQ outliers is that, to them, inordinate detail-orientation and extreme repetitiveness does not appear to be mentally taxing at all --so their cost-benefit calculus might seem completely foreign and unintuitive to the rest of us!