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I wonder if it is really such a new thing. Elite schools pushing students to learn 14h a day and indirectly to also use drugs to increase performance, that soun
by erikb 11y ago
I wonder if it is really such a new thing. Elite schools pushing students to learn 14h a day and indirectly to also use drugs to increase performance, that sounds like a typical elite youth story.
- cryoshon 11y agoI would say the pushing of students to take performance enhancing drugs is a direct consequence of emphasizing competition rather than learning. Having met many of these people, it's not that they are incomplete or flawed human beings-- it's that they are largely foreign to themselves because their only mode is to "achieve" resume items, even if they flatly deny that is their life's purpose when questioned. The biggest strengths that "elite" over-achievers typically have are a complete lack of existential pause and a rejection of non-practical introspection.