And I am far from the intellectually elite (i have ADHD, undiagnosed until recently and had a very hard time in school). I worked and worked and worked and while the great minds would get an B+ in a science or math test and I got only one of a few A’s and they would ask, “how did you do that, a couple of weeks ago, you had a hard time and were asking me questions on the concept or formula?”

Yep, I was asking you, but while you spent 4 hours studying for that test, I spent 40 hours (not a joke). So you thought you knew it all, but I knew what i had to do to do well and did so.

Hard work still means something