In his video Why Gifted Kids Are Actually Special Needs, Dr. K tells a bit about his own story, how he was always good in school and thus never really had to study and work hard for his good grades. Everyone just told him "oh, you will be great sometimes", and thus creating hugh expectations. But he did never learn how to study hard in middle school.
He compares it to building a shack and a mansion. Everyone expects you to build a mansion, but you and everyone else around you forget that building a mansion is actually much more work than building a shack. And while others go to target, buy 100 square meters of wood and build their shack with it, you go to target, started to lay out your foundation for the mansion, for which 100 m2 might even be too little, and then you wander why you don't even have a shack.
On of the top comments stated: "Being "gifted" is like driving an automatic while everyone else is driving a manual. You never truly learn how to drive a manual because you simply never had to. Meanwhile, everyone praises you for your driving ability and tells you that you could be a professional driver or - who knows - maybe even a race car driver! You start to believe them and think, yeah... I could totally be a pro racer! Suddenly, you're stuck at the starting line wondering why the hell you can't even get your car to start while everyone else does laps around you"
Dr. K himself took "the scenic rout in life", how he calls it. He ended up finishing his biology major at University of Texas, studied medicine in Tufts University and entered Harvard Medical School with 32 years old. There he had to take entry exams and assessments, performed by people who were younger than him, which was a challenge for him. But he mastered it.
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