Work has just as many problems as schools for the gifted in general. Start a job blow people's socks off by mastering it in short order and find out it's drudgery. Work to get great ideas into the company and end up spending all your time on managing the implementation. Take a mid level semi-creative job but can't keep the big picture contained and find you own too much. Politics? I've always just acted like it doesn't exist, and tada it has no effect on me.

And there is research supporting the premise http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.23...83&uid=63&uid=3739256&sid=21102338898471

Then the chicken and the egg aspect, is the very thing of looking for new things and improving things a key driver to intelligence in the first place?

Let's not even get introversion into the mix.