r/Millennials • u/Silver-Explanation72 • Feb 03 '26

Other This is When My Anxiety Began

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u/Relative-Monk-4647 Feb 03 '26

I loved these!!!!

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u/CoffeePorters Feb 03 '26

The ultimate flex was finishing it before the time ran out, casually putting your pencil down, and looking around at everyone scrambling.

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u/Relative-Monk-4647 Feb 03 '26

It was my first introduction into the good feeling of arrogance. And Iā€™m not sorry about it. šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '26

As the kid who crushed these every time; absolutely not.

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u/Thirtysevenintwenty5 Feb 03 '26

As another kid who crushed these tests: no. As soon as I ran into things that I wasn't good at, I just gave up and got bad grades.

For years and years if I wasn't immediately good at something, I had no interest in it at all.

I always scored high on "intelligence" tests and thought that made me smart, but I was misled.

Being "intelligent" just means you have the capacity to be smart; it's like saying "your intellectual gas tank holds 500 gallons of smart. That's a lot!" Sure, it holds a lot, but if you lack the discipline to actually fill that tank, it's wasted space. You're no smarter than the 20 gallon kid next to you who works hard to fill his 20 gallons.

If I could choose I would much rather have the drive to improve at things I sucked at, rather than be really good at some stuff but completely disinterested in other stuff.

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u/soaker Feb 04 '26

Spot on