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No. Even if you are not pro, you still are good at your sport.
The gifted child burned out is a failure to foster a kid’s interests and skills that translates into adulthood.
Someone who is good at sports gets encouragement and coaching. If they have any potential they are scouted and sponsored.
A smart kid can have straight “A’s” and a perfect SATs and then be left to fend for themselves to find the right college.
Even if you find a good college, that’s the great equalizer. A lot of us effectively intuited our way through high school, and some of us did manage to keep that up through college, but for a lot of us we get to advanced college classes and realize that we never had to develop the skills to actually learn things and have no idea how to start and then yeah fend for yourself… no one really knows what to do there, especially us.
That’s another facet of what I said.
You got good marks and the teachers ignored you. If you’d been on the sports team the coach would have been talking to you after every game, refining your talent. The high school just wanted to get out and become someone else’s problem.
There was a story a while back. The kid got scholarships to all the best schools because they had a 4.0 average and near perfect SATs. The school had a big display of all the great colleges the class had gotten into, and most of those places were that one kid.
The kid dropped out his first term and never went back to any of the schools.
This is my struggle right now. Thankfully, I actually did develop my learning skills a handful of times but for the vast majority of my life I’ve just used pattern recognition to get through school. I managed to get about halfway through my degree before I started having to actually learn, but who knows if even properly learning anything will land me a job lol
I have a strong feeling that nowadays it is more about connections and networking. Corruption touching every field just cant ignore big sports
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Johnson_(boxer)
Realistically, sports fans want sports. There may be corruption and steroids and point shaving, but in the end, they want to see someone do something incredible.
I think this analogy is becoming more true as our economy slowly crumbles.
Most gifted athletes do not make it in professional sports because there are relatively very few jobs in those fields.
I found, as a gifted child, that you can do most things right. You can get the highest test scores and grades, you can earn high accolades, you can graduate with a “great” degree from a respected university, you can follow all the advice of profs and advisors… And still 99.8% of companies do not even bother responding to your handwritten resume.
As opportunity dwindles, the western system will naturally produce more unemployed losers like myself.
Why would you expect them to bother reading a handwritten resume?
Sending a handwritten resume tells them that you haven’t mastered the most basic skills they’d expect from an employee.
I assume they meant that they composed the resume themselves vs a chatbot spit it out for them
Sorry for the misunderstanding, I used “handwritten” but I really meant “handcrafted”. This means personalized cover letter, customized resume with keywords, and no AI assistance.
All typed, of course, not handwritten.
I also submitted thousands of AI-generated resumes, but I don’t really count those, they are slop.
I apologize as well. I jumped to a conclusion and responded too quickly.