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Thinking back, I was neither.

I wasn't good in math, languages or anything in elementary school.

I didn't want to be there and always played "sick".

This just got a little bit better, when I left elementary school and switched 2 schools afterwards. Since the second school was a lot easier than the first, I got better grades without doing anything.

But I never got really good at anything at school, better in Science than in Humanities, always a B- on average. Even my degrees got that rating...




It is probably not worth extrapolating from elementary school performance. And it is probably even less useful to use grades as a measure of success at anything other than doing schoolwork.


Funny thing is, I got this you're A or B impression still.

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