There should be a banner erected in every elementary school: DOING WELL HERE MEANS NOTHING. I’d like to slip little fortune-sized notes in the schoolbooks of middle schoolers: Stop being so good, and Do whatever you want. Just do it with confidence. To high school kids I will simply sidle up behind them in math class, lean forward and whisper “Give up now.

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