I always found the class clowns to be surprisingly smart. I knew this one guy who was a total goof off who always came to class high as shit. I remember one time talking with him in the computer lab only to be surprised he wanted to talk about programming as he had been playing around with game engines for a little while.

There was another guy who was admittedly pretty funny, but I never heard him say anything serious in the entire years I knew him. Until one day, when I had started doing some freelancing work and he stopped by and talked to me about his own pursuits.

True, there’s a number of top athletes that are also top students. The level of discipline for some of them is remarkable.