Self-centered parents and bad childhoods might tend to amplify intelligence, because the person growing up has more opportunities to notice that society and culture are confused and ill (and therefore more frequently noticing ways not to defer to that confusion and illness, automatically strengthening that muscle).
Self-centered parents and bad childhoods might tend to amplify intelligence, because the person growing up has more opportunities to notice that society and culture are confused and ill (and therefore more frequently noticing ways not to defer to that confusion and illness, automatically strengthening that muscle).
It’s probably not as optimal as being born very smart, given lots of time to think, and heavily tutored by lots of smart adults; but the optimal upbringing is rare, and a vastly larger number of smart kids collide with bad childhoods.