Originally Posted by
Biker395
This gave me a chuckle. Good thing you took their advice about getting a menial job, eh? We need to chat over a beer sometime.
I took something akin to an IQ test in elementary school. My parents later came to me and said the school wanted me to skip a grade, so I guess I did OK. As it was, I was already younger than everyone else (November birthday), so I had absolutely no interest in that. Thank God my mother insisted the decision be left up to me. I suppose I'm reasonably bright, but I honestly think any success I've had isn't so much because of intelligence as it is really liking the learning process.
As a child, my son was brilliant. He taught himself to read at 3.5 years old, and was a handful because his intellect was so ridiculously beyond his judgment. I have some great stories about that little miscreant. He tested out at 160+, and he too is an under achiever. I was just haranguing him last night about his grades in bonehead English.
Don't get me started about how poorly a lot of school districts deal with gifted kids. It's a tragedy of lost opportunity.
Oh, and remember the Lisa Simpson quandary:
I'd live to sit down with you Vic, after a ride a coke together would be super I believe, you have the right attitude
A menial job got me on to where I am
. I was a laborer then an iron worker/carpenter as well as a concrete finisher while I went to college. And by worked my way through, I mean both ways, to pay the tuition for me and my wife as well as to "Learn" the stuff they required. I'm an example of regurgitation
being successful in education. That ain't the way to do things either.
I never fight with my low level, I work with it and make things work out for the best.