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77: The Effective Executive

Cortex

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The Machine That Produces the Opposite of What We Want in School

"I find so frustrating about school is it's this Machine that produces the opposite of what we want in the real world," he says. "You're always taught to focus more time on the thing that you're the worst at I So it's like oh you've gotten an A in science and you've gotten a B in English But you got a D in geography." He adds: "The real world only cares about what you're good at and I can't like it's so personal for me because it's like spelling my whole life"

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