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It's both. I've worked harder then fellow students who had much better results and less hard for better results than other students who failed, and seen the sam
by hirundo 4y ago
It's both. I've worked harder then fellow students who had much better results and less hard for better results than other students who failed, and seen the same capacity follow students across classes.
It's the same with physical talents, where I had a particularly vivid example. I golfed almost obsessively for about three years, and then introduced a friend to the game ... who beat me on the back nine of his first round.
- photochemsyn 4y agoFor coursework in college, there are many complicating factors. Part of the problem is just learning how to learn, vs. learning how to cram. The really difficult paths through sci/tech programs are the ones where you can't just cram facts into your head to pass a test and then forget it all a week later - it's where everything you learn in course A becomes a foundation for everything you learn in course B, and so on, and if you fall off the horse anywhere along that ride, it's very difficult to get back on. Often, the people who do really well in the later courses will have adopted a learning strategy that's not about cramming, it's about note-taking and foundational learning, so then the later coursework becomes much easier for them, such that to someone who hasn't done that, these people seem to glide effortlessly through the work, while others have to put in hours and hours with apparently poorer results. Some people learn that early on, others have to take their lumps and learn it later (I was in the latter category, but it was a lesson worth learning).