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>>colinc+(OP)
This sort of tracks for me. The smartest people I know as adults mostly fucked around a lot and had wide interests that all culminated in them doing a great thing greatly. The smartest people I know as kids spent hours grinding on something and crashed out in college and are mostly average well-to-dos now.

>>Kitten+Li
I'm reminded of a meme on Facebook my wife showed me that was a two-dimensional graph of SAT score vs. GPA. The corner with the highest SAT scores but the lowest GPAs was shaded in and labelled "These are the people I want to hang out with."

>>bitwiz+iw
I'm not sure we should romanticize ADHD, which is what you call that region. If those people could be high SAT and high GPA they would prefer it. Signed, someone in that region.

>>idiots+Wy
Who said anything about ADHD?

>>esseph+7I
That's who lives in that region, almost exclusively.

>>idiots+3L
Sure isn't.

I annihilated the SATs. My grades were only good in high school because I was just "gifted" enough to get As without studying. I do not have and never had ADHD. I also never learned how to study.

I almost failed out of college. I didn't know how to study. I didn't have the habits. I sure had a lot of fun in high school and college though.