Polls: Education & Career

I know people with genius I. Q.'s and they all had times in their lives where they worked harder than sweat shop slaves. This makes me believe their high I. Q. is created through rigorous physical or academic training and not a side effect of privileged birth or rich experiences by wealthy parents.

An example is that I know through internet technology about doctors who bike over 77 kilometres a day on rough roads and uphill climbs to raise money for medical facilities they want to build and I saw on YouTube a team of 10 doctors fasted for 5 days while running 20 kilometres a day as a science experiment to see what the effects of fasting were on the body and whether it could reverse insulin resistance.

My family doctor that has been with me since I was 6 years old used to climb the CN tower every year to raise money for charity and he said he and his son were planning to climb one of the tallest mountains in the world together this year. I believe the CN tower is over 180 flights of stairs tall and might be as high as 2000 flights of stairs.

I am not suggesting normal people try any of this crazy stuff at home, but what I am saying that often times people with high success worked very hard at it and are not just born with lucky genes.

My 6 yo daughter's school keeps delaying school for 2 hours, and her dad and I are already at work by that time. Both of our parents live a good 20 minutes/an hour away, so it's not like we can just take her there nor can we leave her home alone for 2 hours. I don't know what the point of these delays are. Just cancel the entire day or don't!

I feel a bit like I’ve been scammed because my old guitar teacher just confused me a bit and wasn’t very clear how he was explaining stuff, then would get a bit annoyed if I took a guitar lesson off someone else, he’d say “you’ll just confuse yourself if you take lessons or advice off other people.. they don’t know the angle we’re coming from”. But then he’d say “there’s no secret to playing guitar, it’s just hard work and focus” but then he’d say “I’ll let you in on a secret that professional guitarists use…” so it seems like he contradicts himself and doesn’t explain stuff that well maybe.

It’s really weird because all his other students say how great he is and how he’s really helping them, but I don’t get that. He’s had some very successful guitarists as students and they all say he’s helped them… but what he says to me is all wishy washy nonsense or at least he doesn’t explain things very well. Then my college lecturer on my music class explains stuff and it all makes sense to me. I dunno, I feel a bit taken advantage of by that guitar teacher, like his quality of teaching was purposely bad so I’d get more lessons. I also feel a lot of anxiety when I pick up guitar now so it seems like getting lessons with him has lowered my self esteem somehow. I feel a bit like I’m going crazy but can’t pinpoint why.
and I don’t get why he chose ME to do this to? I’ve been told I’m fairly intelligent and learn things easily so maybe he feels threatened by that and wants to slow my progress down so I get more lessons? I also felt a lot of anxiety around him like he’s judging me harshly. He’d also say “I think you know more than you think you do” and he’d keep going over the same topics again… and claiming that I don’t fully understand basic stuff… I dunno 🤷🏼‍♀️