u/TShara_Q wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I mean, sure, but SAT scores don't even matter for jobs. Also, who the hell even has the opportunity to do research experience in high school? I was lucky enough to be part of a project in undergrad, but even that is pretty rare.
u/michaelnovati replied ·
Yeah that's where biases come in because who the heck does that. I grew up in Canada and got into the hardest program in the entire country and had no chance of competing.
Then I met all these MIT CMU and Stanford students at Meta and they had more raw smarts than me. They worked just as a hard.
My views changed.
I was forced to find my strengths quickly and go all on them
But imagine if I went to Stanford and confronted that problem 4 years earlier and then spent 4 years under crazy pressure to squeeze out my strengths amongst legends.
I think about all of this a lot and I know enough that there isn't a simple answer or solution or Reddit comment to address it all. It's complicated.