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This made me thing of two topically related claims:
I've heard (for example here) that verbal prodigies are exceptionally rare compared to mathematical and musical prodigies. A novel proof can be delivered at 16, but to write something really amazing you have to have something to say first and that generally requires experience and reflection.
In Human performance, psychometry, and baseball statistics Craig Heldreth talked about the age of peak performance for different sports and professions, and noted (without a citation I could track easily) that business executives peak at about age 60. This suggested to me that instrumental rationality takes a long time to peak and is likely to be more related to crystallized intelligence than fluid intelligence.
A cynical mind might take this as evidence for the proposition that “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know” applies strongly to occupants of the C-suite, as it takes a long time to build solid relationships with lots of important people.