Metadata
- Author: No Stupid Questions
- Full Title:: 184. Are You Doing Too Much?
- Category:: 🎙️Podcasts
- URL:: https://share.snipd.com/episode/27b5f1c6-6b01-432c-be5c-800782523a79
- Finished date:: 2024-02-26
Highlights
I have the same story with Philisophy! I even re-took the exam and stuck with 8/10.
Embrace Imperfection and Challenge Yourself Transcript: Speaker 1 And I’m going to read to you this little story about how Scott kind of developed his world view, which was not only shaped by his football coach, but was shaped by a grade that he got. So he’s a freshman at UCLA and par for the course for Scott. Speaker 4 He has a perfect 4.0. Speaker 1 There are no imperfect raids in his transcripts. Speaker 4 And then what happens is that he turns in a midterm essay. I feel the jazz music already. Speaker 6 Yeah, done. Yeah. Speaker 4 He turns it at essay for his freshman history class on the topic of the battle of Gettysburg. Speaker 1 And when he gets his grade back, it’s a startling be. Speaker 4 And the professor tells Scott, I gave you this grade because you could have done it. You could have done better. Speaker 6 And overall in the class, given that B, Scott gets an A minus. Scott, I’m so sorry. You know, nothing to be ashamed of. Speaker 4 But guess what? Speaker 1 The GPA is not perfect and it will never be perfect because it’s been marred. Speaker 4 Right. Speaker 1 Of course, he goes on to be a Rhodes Scholar, et cetera. The reason why this one grade and this one professor stuck with him for life is that he says people shouldn’t be perfect or even try to be. If you do, it means you’re not challenging yourself enough. And wiser words have never been spoken. And perhaps those wise words would never be spoken if all you got were straight A’s and a perfect 4.0. (Time 0:36:31)