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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A bit of a contrarian view here. I couldn’t have cared less as a HS student and finished in the bottom 10% of my large public HS class. Somehow a college accepted me and I decided it was time to turn it around. I followed a simple formula of working an hour or two a day more than others. That still left me with plenty of time to have fun. I did well and transferred to a T25 school and continued to work hard-I finished near the top of my class. I earned professional degrees from an Ivy and followed the same pattern in my career-and did very well. Don’t believe that hard work doesn’t pay off. It does. Get in gear. [/quote]

I agree that hard work matters a lot, but you also clearly have a lot of natural talent. It didn't show during high school because you were goofing off, but it was always there! Being in the bottom 10% of the class is probably often due to lack of effort rather than lack of talent. Someone might be talented, or maybe not. We just don't know because they didn't turn in their work. That said, you probably can't take an average kid and vault them to the #1 slot based solely on hard work. 
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