@TNT261
He is a genius, that does not mean that he is necessarily a worker, he is surely one of those who never needed to learn seriously, to read books, ...
and he is especially lazy, so he's not going to do unnecessary research.
(I for example, forget everything that seems unnecessary to me, or rather I make no effort to remember.
I am French and I did 10 years of English at school, I did not learn anything because I did not see the use.
I started to read manga and after 2 years I had nothing to read in my language, so I went to the simplest and with the most content, read in English)
Also geniuses, autists, high IQ people don't think like other people.
It makes as much sense to put the hardest coin at the start as at the end of the cave.
Same for the number of stars nothing illogical to think that more is better, or the opposite.
and since the curse has no effect on him, he has no clues