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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.

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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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