What most teenagers don't realize (including me at the time) is that you can switch to hard tests at your discretion. You don't have to wait till some specific age or milestone. http://paulgraham.com/hs.html
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In the teenage world you win by perfect performance on easy tests (wearing just the right clothes, answering multiple-choice questions correctly), while in the adult world you win by adequate performance on hard tests.
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Calvin and Hobbes: "If the government were 75% competent, we'd be ecstatic!"
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What do you consider winning in the adult age?
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Doing the approximately right thing in ambiguous scenarios.
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Hell. In the adult world you win just by attempting the test, most people are too afraid to even try if no one is making them.
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May I suggest a different phrasing: In the teenage world you win by perfect performance on simple tests with bounded outcomes, while in the adult world you win by adequate performance on complex tests with boundless outcomes.https://www.santafe.edu/engage/learn/courses/introduction-complexity …
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That was last year, is there a class in the future?
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in the adult world you shutdown your emotions and take on the variables.
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Teenage tests are mandatory easy. Adults choose their own test difficulty.
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