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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is spiky the same thing as pointy? Pointy being laser focused on one “passion” that do for years and in-depth and it engulfs the student. What’s spiky? Lots of passions that do for hours a day?[/quote]

Spiky denotes achievement—national awards.  Everyone can be pointy. What you want is for that pointy thing to become big.  A big spike.[/quote]

I don’t think so, because a true “spike” is unique and has no national awards by definition. It’s amazing to me how much people cannot wrap their minds around the existence of kids (people?) who have actual independent interests that are not ginned up for prestige. A national award in something is impressive but it is an acheivement in something that by definition is mainstream and to some extent adult-directed. [/quote]

+1000

A Olympic Gold Medal in Swimming is not a spike, it is "something that by definition is mainstream".  [/quote]
This is so stupid. Olympic gold medal definitely IS a spike. No one with half ounce of a brain would play word games like this.[/quote]

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