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Not to brag (is it even possible to brag through an anonymous throwaway account?), but throughout my schooling I skipped or skimmed most readings and avoided do
by teachersaredumb 4y ago
Not to brag (is it even possible to brag through an anonymous throwaway account?), but throughout my schooling I skipped or skimmed most readings and avoided doing the homework, or copied it off my more diligent classmates. But I still got perfect grades in high school and graduate school, outperforming classmates who worked much harder. In undergrad, I had mediocre grades only because I just didn't do the homework and often turned in term projects many days late, but based on test performances, would have also had near perfect grades. I have a bad work ethic which holds me back in other ways, but I'm still near the top of my field for my age bracket. If I hear something once, I understand it and remember it for life. I don't mean memorizing lists; I mean learning how something works and why and how to apply that knowledge.
- travisjungroth 4y agoIf this isn’t to brag, then what is it for?
- cglotr 4y agoTo prove a point that some people are just smarter than others? A useful anecdote
- senko 4y ago(not gp) To show that intuitive math understanding is a thing.
- travisjungroth 4y agoDoesn’t really seem to settle things. Comment explained that people learn math from somewhere. Reply described someone learning math in school, quickly and with low effort.
- cglotr 4y agoLearning math elsewhere implies someone is smarter due to nurture. This dude experience implies raw intelligence (nature)
- travisjungroth 4y agoThere’s no description of his life from age 0 to 5 (incredibly formative nurturing years) and almost none before high school.
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- saberience 4y agoSo despite your clearly large intellect, it seems like you didn't understand the English verb "to brag." I would say this in response, what you describe: being good at middle and high and able to get perfect grades there, isn't particularly impressive. Most good students can excel in high school. You note that things got harder for you in college, this is more normal, "smart kids" usually get found out in college when the work becomes harder. I'm not sure if you went on to postgrad education but I'd hazard a guess that if you went on to do a PhD you would have had a big shock. My point is this, being able to "ace" teenager level work isn't actually all that big of a deal. I went to a private all-boys school where there were many, many boys who aced every piece of homework and tests they took. It didn't mean they were super special, that's just what you get when schools select for the brightest kids. Now, if they went straight from school and then aced their PhD in a year, that would actually be unusual.
- teachersaredumb 4y ago
- musicale 4y ago> If I hear something once, I understand it and remember it for life Must be nice to have that kind of recall at the age of 100. That being said, some people (John Von Neumann) seem to have had fantastic visual and textual recall. A number of artists (Kim Jung Gi) and musicians (Mozart) seem to have developed remarkable visual and auditory memories. And many children or fans who were nothing special in school can easily name every Pokémon, or tell you the stats and history of every member of a sports league, or recite the Star Wars saga line for line. (And chickens, flightless though they may be, still possess the spatial brain of a migratory bird and can memorize (and peck) 300 random locations in their cage space - or on a piano - in order. They're also much better than rats (or humans?) at mazes.)
- prodent 4y ago> Not to brag, but > brags