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“I took the classic ‘former gifted kid’ route into depression, anxiety, and a low-salary, unambitious adulthood. When I was 30 years old, I trained in a professional healthcare job that I love. Now, I don’t worry about money month-to-month, which still feels like success to me.”
“Honestly I think being smart at school meant I never learned how to persist with something difficult because I found academic stuff easy in general. I didn’t take time to identify and build on my strengths because none stood out. And it took me a long time to learn how to dust myself off after a failure.
If you have smart kids, make sure you make something else important besides grades.”
—lexnettle
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/pernellquilon/smartest-kids-high-school-more