Gifted kid is still smart much like not pro sport guy is still good their sport. But both have the reality of they weren’t good enough when they grew up with their respective skills being their only identity.
Talking about your high school game where you threw 4 you touchdowns also doesn’t translate well into adulthood.
Even if you find a good college, that’s the great equalizer. A lot of us effectively intuited our way through high school, and some of us did manage to keep that up through college, but for a lot of us we get to advanced college classes and realize that we never had to develop the skills to actually learn things and have no idea how to start and then yeah fend for yourself… no one really knows what to do there, especially us.
You got good marks and the teachers ignored you. If you’d been on the sports team the coach would have been talking to you after every game, refining your talent. The high school just wanted to get out and become someone else’s problem.
There was a story a while back. The kid got scholarships to all the best schools because they had a 4.0 average and near perfect SATs. The school had a big display of all the great colleges the class had gotten into, and most of those places were that one kid.
The kid dropped out his first term and never went back to any of the schools.
This is my struggle right now. Thankfully, I actually did develop my learning skills a handful of times but for the vast majority of my life I’ve just used pattern recognition to get through school. I managed to get about halfway through my degree before I started having to actually learn, but who knows if even properly learning anything will land me a job lol
Realistically, sports fans want sports. There may be corruption and steroids and point shaving, but in the end, they want to see someone do something incredible.
No. Even if you are not pro, you still are good at your sport.
The gifted child burned out is a failure to foster a kid’s interests and skills that translates into adulthood.
Gifted kid is still smart much like not pro sport guy is still good their sport. But both have the reality of they weren’t good enough when they grew up with their respective skills being their only identity.
Talking about your high school game where you threw 4 you touchdowns also doesn’t translate well into adulthood.
Someone who is good at sports gets encouragement and coaching. If they have any potential they are scouted and sponsored.
A smart kid can have straight “A’s” and a perfect SATs and then be left to fend for themselves to find the right college.
Even if you find a good college, that’s the great equalizer. A lot of us effectively intuited our way through high school, and some of us did manage to keep that up through college, but for a lot of us we get to advanced college classes and realize that we never had to develop the skills to actually learn things and have no idea how to start and then yeah fend for yourself… no one really knows what to do there, especially us.
That’s another facet of what I said.
You got good marks and the teachers ignored you. If you’d been on the sports team the coach would have been talking to you after every game, refining your talent. The high school just wanted to get out and become someone else’s problem.
There was a story a while back. The kid got scholarships to all the best schools because they had a 4.0 average and near perfect SATs. The school had a big display of all the great colleges the class had gotten into, and most of those places were that one kid.
The kid dropped out his first term and never went back to any of the schools.
This is my struggle right now. Thankfully, I actually did develop my learning skills a handful of times but for the vast majority of my life I’ve just used pattern recognition to get through school. I managed to get about halfway through my degree before I started having to actually learn, but who knows if even properly learning anything will land me a job lol
I have a strong feeling that nowadays it is more about connections and networking. Corruption touching every field just cant ignore big sports
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Johnson_(boxer)
Realistically, sports fans want sports. There may be corruption and steroids and point shaving, but in the end, they want to see someone do something incredible.