Anonymous wrote:Why do you think you weren't academically inclined? Do you think it was your personality or could a different academic environment have helped? I know that some kids think they don't like school when in reality they don't like being asked to do things that are too easy or too hard.
Also don't assume that intellectual inclination is very well correlated with professional success. Lots of professional success is based on connections, personality, and dogged determination. You can get really good grades but struggle professionally since the skill sets don't overlap.
This. I wasn't academically inclined until late high school. Neither of my parents even started college. Still graduated top 10% of my law school then big law. For me it was dogged determination to be something different than the religious community in which I was raised that did not value women working outside the home. I had some academically inclined friends that did really well throughout school and have had no professional success.
That said, at my home we read every night and I make my kids listen to audiobooks in the car. I think they are academically inclined, but time will tell.