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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not going to offer my personal opinion on the matter (does this forum really need another opinion?). But I'll offer that if anyone is interested in this conversation, the 2023 Nobel Prize winner in medicine/physiology explores it a bit in her memoir, Breaking Through.

She says that in school and college, she wasn't especially smart or talented, but that she out-worked everyone around her. But rather than it being a simple matter of "hard work overcomes all", the hard work actually changed her baseline.  Plasticity of the brain, etc. [/quote]
It’s a great book. She is somewhat disingenuous considering all evidence indicates she is a at least academically gifted(95%), likely highly so(98-99th). Among some academic peers who may have been some 1 in 1000 ppl she may have felt “average” , but there is nothing average about her. She is correct that hard work and surrounding yourself with people who are similar or smarter does push you to work hard, and that is where the growth occurs. This has been studied and is one of the key reasons people with 98-99% kids often want to super-elite schools: the peers, faculty, everyone will push you to achieve more than you would if you were one of the top ones in a weaker peer setting. [/quote]

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