I've been really thinking this whole thing over in my mind, how people with a lot of intelligence can end up like in a trap because of that very intelligence.
People with high IQ and intellectual prowess tend to get themselves in trouble by overanalyzing and making complicated maps for what they're thinking and taking the time to figure out all the possibilities and predicting all the ways that things can go wrong before they ever act on them, all of those things they planned out have actually made it so that the lesson doesn't even exist anymore. The lesson was supposed to come from doing the experience, the lesson didn't come from thinking about doing the experience.
The people who don't care as much about risk tend to just go for it. Sure, they will make mistakes, but they are actually going to have a real lesson because they lived the experience. That mistake had a bigger impact and stuck with them.
I'm not trying to say that stupidity is good, but not knowing enough about the risk of something or lack of intelligence, might push you into experiences that teach you quicker than you could learn to do so from planning things out very carefully.
People with a lot of brains build barriers to themselves in order to avoid growing. They avoid how they feel embarrassed, have failed or felt uncomfortable. I think these people think that's a good way to be. And yet they wonder why they are stuck and other people seem to be moving forward and growing without much effort.
Maybe I am wrong about this. Maybe the intelligence they have is just fear in a different outfit. Regardless I believe we usually look down upon those kinds of learning experiences because they happen to you because you just went and did something you really weren't supposed to, but you did it anyway.