,,I have no expertise on this topic but it seems to me that some people are truly smarter than others''
As an autistic person I agree with this, but it comes at a huge cost of much worse understanding of facial expressions of people and much less adaptability to change.
Also one more big disadvantage is that most people can't distinguish between a smart person and an a$$hole (Dr House is a good example of a person focused on saving lifes, but still people think he's an a@@hole... Elon Musk is an even more controversial example)
>As an autistic person I agree with this, but it comes at a huge cost of much worse understanding of facial expressions of people and much less adaptability to change.
I don't believe that intellectual ability necessarily requires you to miss out on facial expressions or adaptability. It occurs in some people, but even, e.g., John von Neumann was famously gregarious and friendly. Furthermore, it is worth noting that autism (even high-functioning autism) does not consistently present with exceptional ability in formal reasoning — that is also a "sometimes".
>Dr House is a good example of a person focused on saving lifes, but still people think he's an a@@hole
Dr. House is a fictional character. I don't think there has ever been a real life doctor who diagnoses his patients consistently from intuition and then sends his residents on a scavenger hunt for kicks.
High intelligence doesn't necessary come with trade offs in other areas of mental processing.
Neurotypical high-intelligence gets less media attention. I have an aunt that's an incredibly intelligent aerospace engineering professor who the military regularly brings in to teach fighter pilots the math behind flight. (This is a non-trivial achievement.) She's just a regular person.
He seems to have the raw capacity for intelligence and appears to have applied it well in understanding rocketry, but he does not apply it equally. He's said and done a lot of bone-headed things and ignored genuine expertise.
I don't know of any examples of hyper focused, autistic, high achieving leaders. I'm not aware of any examples of hyper focused, high achieving leaders having been confirmed as being autistic. So, for vacuous reasons, the answer to your question is no.
Let's suppose that there are no such examples. What then? If a person is an asshole what does it matter why they are an asshole?
Elon Musk is a bit controversial recently. More and more people begin to notice that he's basically Chat GPT in human skin with twitter handle that has ability to hire people some of who do smart things.
As an autistic person I agree with this, but it comes at a huge cost of much worse understanding of facial expressions of people and much less adaptability to change.
Also one more big disadvantage is that most people can't distinguish between a smart person and an a$$hole (Dr House is a good example of a person focused on saving lifes, but still people think he's an a@@hole... Elon Musk is an even more controversial example)