[quote=flu]Being gifted in you doesn’t mean shit. Being driven an passionate that matters makes a huge different. People that I knew that were gifted and breezed through HS and got into Harvard/MIT subsequently flunked out because they were lazy. People that weren’t the rock stars but worked for it did well and ended up working for Goldman (ok maybe, that’s not such a good thing 🙂
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To keep hammering my sports analogies, being gifted is like being a top 5 draft pick. It’s no guarantee of superstardom: Ryan Leaf, anyone? But the odds of a student identified as “gifted” achieving more than their less gifted peers are certainly higher. Natural gifts are one part of the equation. “You can’t teach height”, but the NBA is littered with high draft pick big men who never panned out. Still, I hear that LeBron guy is pretty good.
