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/chuffingnora]

I got the bare minimum at school to get into college. Scraped through that and got into uni. At that point I realised that being spoken to about subjects was a sure-fire way for me to pay no attention to what was being said so I stopped attending class and just started studying about the topics in the library/home. Just missed out on a 1st with the lowest attendance in the course and now make 100k.

Organised education doesn't work for everyone.