Wellesley High grads told: "You're not special" - The Swellesley Report

At the end of high school, most graduating seniors are given their diplomas with a heaping side of platitudes, many of them patently preposterous. Such as, “If you can dream it, you can do it.” Or “You can be anything you want to be.” And especially, “With grit and determination, there’s nothing you can’t do."

Tel est donc le meilleur conseil que je puisse donner à un enfant de quinze ans qu’on a fourré dans une école d’un autre âge au Mexique, en Inde ou en Alabama : ne t’en remets pas trop aux adultes. La plupart ont plein de bonnes intentions, mais ils ne comprennent rien au monde. Autrefois, suivre les adultes était un pari relativement sûr parce qu’

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Once you’ve finished at Harvard Business School or any other top academic institution, the vast majority of people you’ll interact with on a day-to-day basis may not be smarter than you. And if your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning opportunities will be very limited. But if you have a humble eagerness

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