It is a neurotic trait that is conducive to high intelligence, if only it is channeled properly onto intellectual topics rather than left to the narcissistic ego and its concern for social status (and how you've compromised in it the past and how you're insufficient in it now, and must attain it in the future).
You must fully cease to exist as a social climber and only be preoccupied by pure abstraction. Even your actions in the world, insofar as you perform them, must be understood as nothing but an act, a LARP, which is as meaningless as what you think about but similarly amusing on a meta level.