Originally Posted by Val
Originally Posted by JonLaw
Intimidation purposes and to explain that you *did* consider yourself superior to them and that this simply reinforced it?

Did you really believe that you were superior to them, or were you just trying to prove it to yourself?

My confidence in myself was pretty complete given that I was significantly more intelligent than my age-peers (and my own family) and that's generally who I interacted with.

I'm a very good example of someone who had limited resilience when confronted with actual challenges in college, which ultimately resulted in internal collapse and dysfunction.