> In middle school and high school, what the other kids think of you seems the most important thing in the world. But when you ask adults what they got wrong a

> In middle school and high school, what the other kids think of you seems the most important thing in the world. But when you ask adults what they got wrong at that age, nearly all say they cared too much what other kids thought of them. That doesn't mean they were wrong when they were kids. On the one hand, we want to believe the adults because they have perspective and experience. They were those kids. But on the other hand, we should also believe the kids because they are actually living it.