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Re: truly pathetic

>> my parents shielded me from media interviews when i came top of the class in high school and won a scholarship, and also top of the class in my honours degree in university (of course, by the time i got top of the class in my masters degree, nobody really cared anymore). in my adult life, i find media interviews very stressful, i always have to watch my words very carefully. <<

Christine, I don't know what to say. As you know I work in the technical media. In this job I've met and interviewed many talented people. Including a few billionaires. But not ONE of these I recall would ever stoop to the sort of self-praising monologue that I read above.

I'm afraid to say, but you remind me of people at school who've had it drilled into them by their parents from an early age that if they didn't come top in class, music, art, etc. then they were considered failures.

For example, I recall numerous Hong-Kong Chinese students at my boarding school with no personality whatsoever, who just spent ALL their free time studying in the college library. The would never join in an any leisure activities, never spoke to anyone at lunch time (apart from their own group) etc. But sure enough, would come top in all the exams. How sad for them.


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