What's the context (noise issues etc.) of your home like?

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I'm trying to figure out one thing here: do people effectively function less with more 'noise'? (Which could be defined as uncontrollable environmental chaos - that would include bright lights from windows never requested for in the first place etc.)

What brought me to wonder this is actually just watching some news economists talking - not the subject, as it could be anything, but their composure. Did they learn what they're now highly regarded in under 'noisy' conditions? If they did, would they have still become who they were?

It's just that I'm increasingly becoming convinced that intelligence means absolutely nothing in this world. Sure, one could be in the best conditions and still be unable to walk if one's legs are broken, but regardless of how sprawling my curiosity becomes, and no matter how much I 'try' to learn (since ultimately 'learning' is about integration which must be disrupted with noise around) - all I ever get, in ever-increasing quantities, is nothing but misery. Sure, I'm happy every time I wake up at night, because that's the only time I can learn without noise around... but how exactly can I function in society like this? How exactly can I ever not be anything but desperate if the only thing I can do to feel alive or even remotely joyful is force myself to sleep in the day so I could be awake in the night, effectively destroying my internal rhythm?

People don't function less. After what I've seen, there is a depending factor regarding what category you can be placed in: Introvert, or extrovert. Introvert people need to eliminate all or most sounds to work the best, extrovert people enjoy noise and motion around them and work the best in those conditions. Both introverts and extroverts can achieve the same, but their personalities may differ and therefore they excel in different parts of subjects, thoughts, interests etc. They could hypothethically achieve the same thing, though, also the economists.

I am introvert, and probably a bit too sensitive because of AS, and I always have to eliminate all sound and distraction to function best. If you have big sensory issues that obviously have a considerable impact.

I'm just thinking, can't you learn to shut out the exterior influences? Try analyzing what environment you're in, what you want to avoid and what you want to have, ideally, then navigate yourself through all the mess in your own "system". Try concentrating on your interests and what stimulates you, try to be sharp and to have a clear mind that are ready to handle any intrusion, and when the intrusion comes, you know where you should go, to your ideal place. After a while maybe this becomes automatic. Try to figure things out and get your thoughts straight on what is happening. When I am outside in a chaotic place I am more or less still on my own personal island, thinking about my own problems and analyzing everything in accordance to my own way of seeing things, I don't get bothered and I am able to concentrate. My interests helps a lot with this, because I can think about them and then I feel like "home" wherever I am.