High IQ (in it's general sense) hinders as much as helps. It often leads to overthinking, procrastination and examination of all possible outcomes and needs a high degree of self-discipline exerted over it to stop analysis paralysis in decison making. People with high IQ tend to take a more thought based approach than instinctive in my experience and over thinking leads to fear.
This does not mean to say that high IQ people are less successful. It just means that they consider more variables when reaching decisions. Lower IQ tends to rely more instinctively on their choices when based on decisions and thus tend to make them quicker, however tend to make more mistakes. Less over thinking means less fear.
It all balances out with success. To say one or other is more successful is too simplistic in my view as I know of some exceptionally successful high IQ people. Each bracket just has different challenges to overcome.
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