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They did tell me this when I was an teenager: "You're a smart kid, but you need to put in more effort". I tried putting effort towards school for a while. I
by warwick 17y ago
They did tell me this when I was an teenager: "You're a smart kid, but you need to put in more effort".
I tried putting effort towards school for a while. I figured if I had to play, I may as well win. The problem with treating high school as a game is that it's not fun. Learning the material doesn't get you anything, not even more advanced material to dig into.
For me, digging my teeth into a difficult problem is it's own reward. In high school I wasn't asked to work on difficult problems. Instead I sat in the back of the class, ignored the lecture, worked on whatever I was doing at the time, and coasted through the tests well enough to pass.
Plenty of effort. Plenty of work ethic. Plenty of smarts. Nothing I wanted to work on.
- sp332 17y agoIt's not about effort, it's about self-control. If you had been able to make yourself work on the class assignments, even if you didn't like them, you would have better grades.
- jibiki 17y agoIf you had been able to make yourself work on chess problems, even if you didn't like them, you would have been better at chess.
- radu_floricica 17y agoYeah, they told me too. I wish I'd have seen this paper... though I might not have taken it seriously enough. But still, it's probably better then some old guy who pesters you to work more without any obvious reason.