Hello, I've been reading a lot of posts about smart people who started to become lazy just because they found school, uni so easy that they didn't have to study anymore. They realized they can just coast on As and Bs without putting much effort, however as it couldnt last forever they fell behind and regret it now. As for me, I am one of those 'smart' people who had easy time getting into top schools in my country and still being top 5 in terms of grades. However every success motivated me to work harder and stay on top to get the praises so I was really on a track.
But the thing is every failure, drawback just made me sad and lose interest in things. I was really good at chemistry, however my high school teacher was awful and kinda prejucided towards some of the students (including me). I really wanted to study chem at Uni when I was still in middle school, but given the bad time I had studyuing it I just completely lost interest in it (also since I wasnt the best at it anymore, I just stopped caring). Therefore i picked up the subject I wasnt that interested in (economics), but I was really good at it and worked hard to excel ( I was the so called 'finance guru' at high school, so this really motivated me to learn more and more and answer my friends questions).
After getting into uni(top 20 in the world QS ranking) my results started to go down since it wasnt my dream subject and there were other people who were much better than me. I just dont give a shit anymore and the grades just go down and down. And again, finding that I wasnt the best or like top % made me start underachieving again.
So does any of you have/had similar experiences, where being really good just motivated you to become ever better instead of settling down? And then when you started to underperform you just give up altogether because you cant stand not being the top percentile? Also what did you do to overcome this?
Submitted May 20, 2017 at 10:32PM by pokepim http://ift.tt/2roRccN
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