Geniuses are the purest forms of outliers but the outcome of their lives buttress the fact that talent and hard work are not the only determinants of outstanding success
Christopher Langan is a celebrity outlier who has become the public face of genius in American life. He has been the subject of a documentary and he gets invited on news shows and magazines profile him. This fame is because of his brain which defies description. He has an IQ that is greater than that of Albert Einstein by 30%.
Poor parenthood and the wrong choice of the university made him lose his scholarship. Also, somehow his professors were unable to truly discover his incredible talent. Langan was unable to graduate from college even though he is probably the most intelligent of all geniuses you have ever met.
Another important discovery is the fact that intelligence has a threshold. While there is a remarkable difference between someone with an IQ of 70 and someone with an IQ of 170, the difference diminishes when the 1Q reaches 120. In other words, someone with an IQ of 120 has equal, if not better chances of winning a Nobel Prize just as someone with an IQ of 160 or higher. In fact, it seems as though your ability to do well in divergence tests diminishes as your performance in convergence tests increases. Nobel Prize winners are usually people who have been able to think outside the box after gaining mastery of the box itself.