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>But what about innate ability?

With some life experience one finds that innate incredibly high IQ doesn't stop people from doing extremely stupid things - both generally in life and also in their own field/profession.

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True. I wasn't referring to high IQ. But innate ability to have some wisdom or learn easily from life's mistakes, which IMO is much different than high IQ.

Yeah, but if we change it to "wisdom/learning from mistakes" the claim becomes tautological: "people who are wise act wise".

Well, the original link seemed to imply that it was a choice or behaviour that one could change, which is what I was disagreeing with.

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