Top of the Class Doesn’t Translate to Top of the World: The Lies We Are Told About High Achievers
8 min readOct 18, 2018
The role of high school valedictorian is lofty. There they are, the epitome of success, certainly with all those terrific grades, superb behavior and commendable extra-curricular activities.
Conventional wisdom would dictate that those same folks would go on to revolutionize the world, right?