HN: Curse of the Gifted
- Kind
- Message Posted to a Newsgroup
- Date
- 02/11/2014
- Publisher
- Hacker News
- Retrieved
- Feb 11, 2014
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Curse of the Gifted: Personal Account
I am miles away from Eric or Linus, but the "curse of the gifted" is very real. Thankfully I wasn't smart or gifted enough that I could ride it for long, but when it comes to math and problem-solving I rode it well into my high school years. I never learned to do algebra "by the book," because I didn't need to. Or…