Re:Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
by jjaredsimpson on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @09:58AM
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Some people enjoy the race. Seems like you are implying his time could've been better spent "doing kid stuff."
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Re:Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
by Retric on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @10:14AM
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Write a book, start a company or a band, volunteer, learn to meditate or Kung foo, do whatever.
It's not a question of being a kid, it's a question of living your life as a neurosurgeon because you decided that sounded cool when you were 8, and never really rethinking it until you had a lot of debt.
Sure, if this is what they really want then great. But, thinking this is a good path and they would be wasting there potential being a raft guide is terribly hollow. Getting out of high school at 15 is cool, starting collage is not a goal just a path to something else.
Re:Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
by Nimitz14 on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @10:44AM
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He's not implying anything. He's saying it's wrong to assume that everybody should want the same thing. Is it that hard to understand?
Re:Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
by ruraljuror on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @11:16AM
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I take your point, but would rephrase it slightly differently: everybody should want the same thing: happiness, but not everybody achieves happiness in the same way.
To pick up on the racing comments from above, one should keep in mind Tal Ben-Shahar's warnings about the rat race happiness archetype, where one sacrifices in the present for perceived benefits in the future.