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Originally Posted by ponrauil
 The man is blessed, what can he do about it?
Seriously though, there are differences between people and their learning abilities, but there are most of all differences between their self-confidences, and that really is what makes people worry more or less for their exams or job interviews.
If you have a lot of both self-confidence and learning capability, then besides possibly coming across as pretentious, you might be a bit too laid back to succeed as much as your potential could lead you to. And that could close some interesting doors. When one thing that matters when you hit the professional world is having the choice, being laid back though talented can be an obstacle and a source of regret.
In the end the not so blessed and stressed hard working student will go as high if not higher than the laid back gifted one.
We've all got our abilities and lack of, as long as you know yourself well enough, from what you want or don't want to what you can or can't do, I think you'll be ok.
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you are but a wise man.
I'm totally aware that I coudl achieve much more if I put in the effort but my effort to result ratio just now is fine by me. I'm happy being a solid good B student without really exerting myself. I could be a solid A student if I applied myself but I don't feel the need.
I think school has alot to answer to for that. I mean I never really done jack shit in school and was still one of the smartest people in my year.
I done good in all the exams and could say with a great deal of certainty that I got better results than 90-95% of students in Scotland in the years I sat my exams which is fine with me. When I look at people in my year who studied religiously for weeks and although they got straight A's. it still wasn;t a significant enough difference in grades to make me want to work harder and I suppose that's just stuck with me through uni.
i see my sister studying literally every night even during normal term timeand it blows my mind. as already mentioned, history is easy if you get what it's all about (and no it's not just dates and names
) and it's easier if you can hear a name and date once or twice and remember it way down the line if somethign jolts your memory like scanning over rough notes.
01-17-2006, 12:48 AM
