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My Background – Part 4: Finally, a Fully Actualized Nerd…

It turned out that my understanding of college was flawed, which was a good thing. First of all, I found that I could actually pick more of what I studied. And, even the stuff I didn’t pick, was more interesting because it was taught in a way that involved actually thinking for myself. Also, because the professors studied their subjects for a living they were usually very deeply interested and passionate about what they taught, which made it easy for them to motivate the subjects in their classes. Also, since I was also very deeply interested and passionate about the subjects I was learning about…we got along a great deal better then I got along with my grade school teachers. Interestingly they almost became like celebrities to me. When all was said an done, I started out just wanting to get an associate degree, and ended up with 2 bachelor degrees. Also, I went from a C student in grade school to an A student in college. I learned that motivation is more important than so-called intelligence (which I’m not even sure exists as we currently think of it). This lesson helped to fuel my later ambitions, as you’ll see.

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Background | Nathan | January 24, 2008 1:24 am | Comments (0)

My Background – Part 1: The high school years…

Let’s start with what I can remember from High school. I seem to have a very poor episodic memory…bordering on some odd form of retrograde amnesia. It makes me a bad story teller, but a very forgiving person. I was a social person in high school, but I still spent a great deal of time in books and on the computer (big surprise). I liked to read about eastern religions, philosophy, and psychology. Since the things I liked reading were not the things I was being graded on, I didn’t do too well in school. I self-medicated my intellect on what I felt were more worthwhile endeavors. I felt like the way I was taught in school amounted to intellectual spoon-feeding, and held very little real insight.