<p>^ I like your location.</p>
<p>in the west, we value innate traits. in the east, they value hard work.</p>
<p>^ I’m starting to like the east.</p>
<p>me too. It was a revelation for me when I realized that being gifted is nothing if you dont stretch that gift for all its worth</p>
<p>Yea its pretty annoying</p>
<p>Daxlo are you completely incapable of remembering any of my previous posts which I have addressed to you</p>
<p>I distinctly remember, ONLY A DAY OR TWO AGO, telling you that I put effort into studying college-level material and practicing with finals and midterms from classes which I will eventually take at the university which I will eventually attend. Yes, I’m definitely going to “fail” college at this rate. I must be such a “lazy” student.</p>
<p>Why would you not be glad that you are innately smart? In my opinion, you are just bitter at the people who actually have more intrinsic talent than you do and thus need to put in little work into things which you put a lot of effort into. I would suggest overcoming this issue or in college it might become a bit debilitating . . .</p>
<p>Again, if I can master my HS classes with 10% effort, what is the point of putting more than 10% effort into them? I do not gain anything more. I do not get a higher grade, unless you think that extra 0.01% is actually significant. I do not learn any more than I already do. I am wasting my own time.</p>
<p>Since I am not stupid, I do not like wasting my own time. This should be a fairly easy idea to understand.</p>
<p>Classic elitism here.</p>
<p>And what, studying college work makes you innately better than us?
You sir, have a twisted view of the world.</p>
<p>No, I’m responding to the point Daxlo5 made about my “laziness” and how I will apparently fail in college because, according to him, I have no work ethic and I “won’t cut it” in college.</p>
<p>I’m just showing how his assumptions are baseless and idiotic.</p>
<p>Also, I never said anything about being better than the people here. It’s only tangentially related to the point I made in the previous paragraph.</p>
<p>For those who are unaware, the only reason Kiro posts is to drop thinly-veiled hints about how smart he is…The rest of his post is just a trojan horse to hide his insecurity about his intelligence. You can ignore him without missing anything important</p>
<p>There is always ego behind that statement. It doesn’t even matter if what they’re saying is true or not. Anyone can say that they didn’t achieve X goal because they didn’t try hard enough.</p>
<p>Basically, when I hear this crap, I either think to myself or tell the person, “In the future, nobody’s going to care what you could do; only what you have done will be worth anything.”</p>
<p>I’m not sure if I came up with that on my own or heard a variation of it somewhere, but it’s pretty much true. “I could make all As if I wanted to.” Cool. Too bad you’re stupid enough to consciously decide not to do your best. Yeah, that’s gonna get you far…</p>
<p>I have yet to know someone who gets Bs and Cs and claim that they are actually smart and the only reason they are getting these grades is because they don’t “try” or “care”. </p>
<p>The more common type that I see is the kind that gets top marks, but do not put nearly as much effort into it as the “normal” students. Sometimes, these “naturally smart” students earn my respect more than the hard-working students who get average or above average marks. </p>
<p>However, I don’t like those who ARE hard-working but tell everyone that they don’t work at all. There’s nothing wrong with working hard but if your 10-page report is 30 pages long, and you go around telling everyone that “I don’t know how I’m getting high marks, I don’t even work!”, then that’s going to get me a little iritated.</p>
<p>I know a legitimate guy like this. He tended to misbehave a lot and refused to do assignments, thus getting C’s in regular level humanities classes. He got a 36 on his ACT and is attending the state university majoring in pure math. For him it was about picking what he felt like he needed rather than what the teachers did. I talk to him sometimes nowadays and it seems that he plays more Starcraft 2 than actual college coursework. Some people are just baffling that way.</p>
<p>I agree with the general sentiment though. Not to be elitist, but I’ve heard plenty of people say that they were smart baselessly, and, you know, statistically speaking, not all of them can be above average intelligence…</p>
<p>I just say, “So it doesn’t suck that much to be you then?”</p>
<p>@Kiro. It seems like your oriental eyes couldn’t make out my post.</p>
<p>I said, “Don’t get butthurt” yet, you did. </p>
<p>Maybe you’re good at math but, your common sense is on par with that of a baby chipmunk’s.</p>
<p>It’s a stupid thing to say because people who use it are trying to redeem themselves by shifting the cause of their bad grades to something that they don’t think they need to be as ashamed of, since everyone prefers to have ability but not utilize it rather than not have ability at all. It’s a statement that is an admission of a fault with no intention of changing it, and it’s often said by someone who thinks those listening will actually care.</p>
<p>Fortunately, I actually have not had the pleasure of encountering such a person, though I can imagine that it happens often. If I did, I’d likely spot it…until recently, I have been the person who exerts no effort but does well. I’m not proud of that; I’m in the process of changing, but that is how I would notice the difference. Despite not doing homework, throwing slipshod projects and essays together at the last moment (if at all) my grades are never C’s due to test scores. I find it hard to believe that someone else like this could not easily achieve the same thing; even if their grades were lacking, why would they not earn high test scores if that were the case?</p>
<p>I call this a cover-up. I once won the lottery, but I didn’t take my prize. What, you don’t believe me?</p>
<p>Kids that say this sound like utter idiots.</p>
<p>Is not trying a smart thing to do now?</p>
<p>I know people who boast that they didn’t study or didn’t do the HW and still get As on tests. And it happens. But I think they’re only telling the truth 25% of the time.</p>
<p>And then there are people who don’t boast, thankfully, but are somehow innately talented in one subject. Take physics, for example. Some of my friends never do the HW or pay attention in class and still get As on all the tests. I am quite jealous.</p>