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What happens in those situations is that the smarter children usually wind up coasting through, simply because they find it so easy to stay ahead of the mean.

For the early part of my life, that was me.

Working 10 years of jobs that I hated were my big motivator to resume my education with a renewed vigor. It has worked out well for me since but I would have been much better off if I had not been in that sea of mediocrity during my formative years.



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