mistakes

The problem with extreme intelligence is that it gives you a false sense of your own insight. You could have a really immature or not very smart view about something and because the thinking you did to arrive at that view is really top-notch and no one can win an argument with you about it, you can't see that it's not a very good view. 

I thought of this when I was listening to Lex Fridman interview someone who is legitimately brilliant. 

I think we make this kind of mistake all the time. One variation of it is the way that we think that because someone is a successful writer and can write great literature, that their view of everything is really insightful and they have more moral authority than the average person.