Its interesting to analogize thinking with athleticism. There are some athletes who just outperform most people in all areas as a class. There are athletes wh

Its interesting to analogize thinking with athleticism. There are some athletes who just outperform most people in all areas as a class. There are athletes who are experts in certain fields and useless in others (don't enter a football defensive lineman in an ultra-marathon, etc) Some athletes peak very young. Some train very slowly, some develop very fast. Some athletes start training late in life. It is mystifying if you're trapped in the dead/dying idea of mind-body dualism, but if the mind and brain are just another pile of nutrient consuming protein just like muscle, it makes sense that the observations are similar. I would imagine if it were easy to measure, we'd find similar performance trends WRT pancreas or kidney function.