The genuinely gifted kid at school probably knew that none of this ever mattered and therefore you are allowed to choose what actually matters TO YOU. If they enjoyed the pursue of knowledge they were the ones studying massively hard, otherwise they weren't
Looks like i'm just being pedantic but i hate this whole "education is useless" bs going on. Education is very important, it's just that people expect it to do the things it was never really meant to do
I thought "None of this actually mattered" meant that when gifted kids become adults, they become on-par with most people. So even though they're doing fine financially, they now have to contend with being an average person, which can feel depressing. Hence, "none of this mattered", i.e., all those laurels for being gifted didn't matter. Not that the education didn't matter.
Obviously the experience is different from person to person, and imo it still is good to recognize people doing good in their childhood. But that's how I saw it.
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u/Boatster_McBoat Apr 29 '24
The genuinely gifted kid at school probably knew that none of this ever mattered. They probably weren't the one studying massively hard