Thought processes

I've been thinking about how some people are supposedly 'smarter' than others. I wonder if it actually has anything to do with actual brain 'horsepower' or more about the models that we use to analyze information. I mean, if 2 cars have the same horsepower and one has to go on a windy course while the other goes on a straight course, the one on the straight course will win. It could be that so called 'smart' people think with models that allow them to a)handle more information at once and b) process the information more efficiently. And, of course, all of this is done without trying. Smart people just are smart, they don't know why. And of course, some people aren't as smart at somethings as they are at others. Guass could bury almost any and everyone at math, but he couldn't punch his way out of a paper bag. Mohammed Ali instinctively created new boxing techniques that he used to destroy men twice his size, but there's no indication he could do long division. If we could actually identify and train the models they use to analyze information, maybe someday we will all be as smart as Guass in math, Shakespeare in language and Mohammed Ali in the sweet science.