There are lots of personality attributes that will get in the way of intelligence (or making money from one's intelligence). This seems odd. Allow me a few examples.
Extroversion/Introversion. The capacity to be overt and interactive may help show off one's abilities and get access to applicable skills and opportunities. Being too inhibited can stifle opportunity making events.
Laziness. Plenty of very smart people are lazy. They seek minimal work for sustenance. Perhaps this makes them smart, I'm not sure.
Openness to new experience: This cuts both ways. If you tell yourself you're only good at a set of items, but you hold the potential to be better at a different set, only to exclude the latter set because of perceived difficulty, well, you're setting yourself up to be lazy and unchallenged, and you're also telling yourself something that isn't true, but is convenient.
Capacity to verbalize thoughts and convey them. Not everyone is good at this. This is, perhaps, a skill that is developed through time, and one that isn't intuitive. I'm not sure whether, given an idea, it is best to talk about it from your own perspective, or try to alter how you describe it to fit your perception of the person with whom you speak. Either way, effective communication is hard going.
Depression. This seems obvious.
Cultural stuff and overconfidence (insecurity): Americans like to think they're the fucking best at everything, a priori, with no effort. This is, at best, a form of dangerous adolescence. At worst, it will sink the country. I'm not saying it isn't hard to say "I don't know," but I'm saying that Americans have a really hard time saying it. Because they think they know.
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