I completely disagree with your, and partly for the same reasons you disagree with others. The local maxima you describe is something I hit early on, then got

I completely disagree with your, and partly for the same reasons you disagree with others. The local maxima you describe is something I hit early on, then got access to the university of Missouri while still in middle school. Being below average to average was a giant wake up call that pushed me more. When they connected to the Internet, the information and people available from that connectivity pushed me more. I'm likely never going to do anything that makes me world famous, but if I can be within a standard deviation of all the brilliant people that are only a sentence away, i'll be ecstatic.