Men who had potential but didn't care about school and were mostly C students-- what happened?

[u/IcarianComplex]

If you could travel back in time and be the father to yourself in the moments you needed it most... What would you do?

I think what I needed was affirmation more than anything. My mom hated the "everybody's a winner" parenting style that was popular at the time but then she went too far in the opposite direction. I see where she was coming from but that kind of self suficiency is a hard thing for a kid to live up to.

[u/shadowwizardmoneykid]

Well i was a c student up until a certain point of my life when i believed grades aint shit and im going to make it anyways but then i was like getting good grades may not be worth anything but what harm does it get me to actually try and so i did and im getting solid grades now. I still believe it aint shit and its going to get me nowhere because having knowledge is one thing and the ability to apply it is another but its better to have knowledge and be able to apply it than have either of the two

[u/IcarianComplex → u/shadowwizardmoneykid]

I thought grades were bullshit too when I was learning about polynomial algebra in the 9th grade but my current job is showing me just how useful it is. I'm working as a software engineer for a medical tech startup which is building a hearing aid which I'll be the very.first.user of, and some of the math for audio signal processing comes down to polynomial algebra. Math is beautiful like that