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KH's avatar

I can’t relate more as a former burn out in college guy in Japan!

Allow me for bragging a bit but

I really was an insufferable dipshit when I was a senior at high school, scoring 99.95 or so percentile for SAT equivalent in Japan while bragging about how few hours I have spent on studying.

But in retrospect, it was just I spend few hours in senior, and I did not hate math and I actually even liked studying social studies! And my parents had me pick up English from pre school, which also helped a lot in Japanese exam system.

I was so arrogant that I thought all of them were bc of my natural talent. I also thought like how rare of a talent I was - but no, even with that score, it just means there are 30k or so more “talented” ppl on the planet in *my generation* - and the competition after getting an adult is not really limited to your generation either.

I was too much of a dipshit to keep grinding after college and I completely flopped afterwards while retaining a cheap pride of “talented kid” lol

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Xolt's avatar

At least you had the self awareness to eventually realize you’re not special.

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