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Sounds like engineering class, where every kid in the room is “that kid who is good in math”. My kid just got into the the local youth symphony (tough competit
by madengr 7y ago
Sounds like engineering class, where every kid in the room is “that kid who is good in math”.
My kid just got into the the local youth symphony (tough competition), and as I explain to her, every kid in that symphony is probably 1st chair in their school, and now one of you will be last chair.
You can be smarter than 99% of the people around you, and there are still 60M people in the world smarter than you.
Maybe you really are not “gifted”. Must be a western thing. My two examples above have a large percentage of Asian students. After reading the “Tiger Mom” book, there certainly wasn’t any coddling in that child rearing.
- cobbzilla 7y agoThis is a good realistic perspective. Another great way to look at it positively: surrounding yourself with people better than you is a perfect opportunity to “up your game”. I played a lot of basketball in my youth but was never more than a mediocre player. it wasn’t till my late 20s playing street ball in Oakland that I got a lot better. Those first few weeks were really hard, understanding just how far I was from the other players.