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I graduated from Cornell in 2008 and while I met people who where there for other people's expectations in was a small minority and people who were "... great a

I graduated from Cornell in 2008 and while I met people who where there for other people's expectations in was a small minority and people who were "... great at what they’re doing but with no idea why they’re doing it" were even more rare. There could be a self selection bias at work here, but I still think that my experiences are not so unusual.

api 12y ago
It's a really subjective thing, sure. I spent a lot of time in Boston in the Harvard/MIT orbit and I remember getting exactly the impression this article is talking about in many cases.