The Trouble With Geniuses Parts 1 & 2

In my Gifted and Talented Class, we've been reading a great book called Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell. It explores the human mind, why some people are socially deemed "smart", and how everything around us has an impact on our lives and intellect.
In chapters 3 & 4, titled The Trouble with Geniuses parts 1 and 2, Gladwell talks mainly about IQ, and whether it truly matters or not when it comes to successfullness. One of his main examples is two men, by the names Chris Langaan and Robert Oppenheimer, two very brilliant men. First of all Chris Langaan has the highest IQ ever recorded, at 195. The average person: 100. Now, can't you just picture him as this brilliant scientist in a lab somewhere discovering the answer to an age old question like "Which came first: the chicken, or the egg?" or "Is there really a God?" Well, he's actually quite different, and to sum up Gladwell's point about him: yes, he's brilliant, but his life experiences and personality have caused him not to be as successful as someone with a much lower IQ. Now, the second man, Robert Oppenheimer didn't have as high an IQ, but his story finishes differently. He had a lesser IQ, yet he became one of the leading scientists to develop the nuclear bomb during WWII.
The main difference between these men is their approach their future, and their background. Langaan came from what some people would call a broken home, while Oppenheimer came from a home that suppoorted and nurtured his intellect. IQ isn't all that matters.
I would say that Chris Langaan is mostly successful based on our class definition: "To be successful is to maintain a balance between financial stability and happiness with self and others and to accomplish the goals you want to achieve." Chris is the owner of a farm, and he may not be swimming in money, but he's not living off of food stamps, and I'd call that financial stability. He says he's happy, and he loves his family. He's also accomplishing his goals, working on a project about proving whether God truly is real or not. He's very successful, maybe not in society's eyes, but in mine.