My brother said this one time and I think it applies here. In terms of career success, IQ is the Y Axis you start out at, but hard work is the X axis representing how far you get in that field. It is the responsibility of those high on the Y axis to push just as hard along the X axis. What is success for one person is not success for another, so just set expectations based on things that take hard work as opposed to brute force intelligence. School isn&#x27;t really an indication either way of future success, of my smartest friends, they typically end up closer to the top of their field, but many failed at school&#x2F;academic pursuits and got into other lines of work, creative endeavors, etc.