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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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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I talk with my kids about “which games are you going to play?” For better or worse, one of them (junior high) has (learned/inherited?) my combination of optimism and cynicism; i’m trying to help him see opportunities of the former while making good use of the latter.
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this speech may have been too long for the time allotted... too bad though! would have been great!
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You also had a solid 1.5-2 years of college done while the "easy class" kids had to start from scratch.
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This was a nice piece. Thanks for sharing
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This goes well with your article https://sivers.org/kimo
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or in other words it's a mistake to think that adulthood comes to you at certain age in a lightning storm, you have to work for it
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This is my favorite essay by you. It will always hold a special place with me.
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The switching itself is a hard test
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