I’m the founder and owner of my own company. I changed school seven times and was always getting C’s and D’s. I never wanted to engage with those subjects I found boring, and that included most of the sciences. In 10th grade, I simply stopped attending certain classes. Nowadays, all of my childhood friends have ordinary jobs: managers, drivers, sales people. Nothing stands out among them. It’s just the same for all those who got straight A’s.
My uncle was a terrible underachiever, especially in chemistry. His teacher couldn’t stand him and predicted he would live a life of failure sweeping floors for a living. Years later, my uncle learned that chemistry is actually the most fascinating subject of all; he began to feel that it was his calling in life. So he went on to graduate from university in the subject, defending his thesis successfully. He was recently invited to give a presentation at a conference. When he was speaking, my uncle noticed there was some kind of fuss in the back rows of the auditorium. He soon learned that it was his old teacher who all but fainted from shock when she recognized him.

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