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The bilingual brain may be better at ignoring irrelevant information (www.eurekalert.org)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You become the gigachad who realizes that most of school education is probably not worth the attention, you skip through classes and master things you really enjoy doing in the meantime.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then in college realizes that they have the attention span of a 5 year old and have zero discipline to do prep reading before class. Fails the first year and becomes a drop out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No that's not how my story continues. I didn't buy the "pessimist guide" I bought the "personal resource management" book.