When I was little, I just 'cranked open my ears' during school and let all the things my teachers wanted me to learn just 'float in.' It was fun and easy.
In highschool, I was so happy to make friends with the kids who 'got my jokes' and took the hardest classes, but I thought I was dumb because:
a) I couldn't make myself work as hard as they did. A low 'a' was as good as an A++ to me.
b) I couldn't just 'crank open my ears' and do all my learning in class anymore - so I figured that if I had to study, that meant I was dumb.
c) Several of the kids did outscore me on various tests.
Grinity, thanks for sharing this. I've been struggling with how much concern I should have for the fact that DS6 is underchallenged, yet seems to be happy and content with 'crank'-ing his ears and does very well. You reminded me how important it is to learn how to struggle a bit to learn...
