Successful People Who Were Bad Students
A lot of legends didn't have their shit together at 19, 20, or 21.
Too many people on here try to pass people off as commodities... GPA = Top 25 etc.
It's not very difficult to see that these "bad students" are really smart people...they just didn't want to package themselves too early..
Let's get a list going...
Malcolm Gladwell - He couldn't get into Grad School and now he's shitting out best-sellers like the day after Taco Bell
Colin Powell - Shat grades from shat schools
Get a grip on some Blondes, Monkeys...They ain't lookin' for a Chess Club Captain
There's more than one way to cook a hot dog
swagon - didnt go 2 high skool but started 1 of worlds top hip hop labels, now owns a fleet of tight whips and private jets, flys around the world going 2 mad cray partys
Its all opportunity. And sacrifice. High grades doesn't mean you will be successful, but its obviously correlated somewhat.
"Don't you love it when people in school are like, 'I'm a bad test taker.' You mean you're stupid. Oh, you struggle with that part where we find out what you know? I can totally relate see, because I'm a brilliant painter minus my god awful brushstrokes. Oh, how the masterpiece is crystal up here but once paint hits canvas I develop Parkinson's."
-D Tosh
So what if they were bad students? There's also a shitload of successful people who were good students.
People who always talk about how a lot of successful people were bad students are just trying to make themselves feel better about their low GPA. Like it or not, grades matter.
Of course they matter but they are by no means an indication of a person's possible success in the future. Personality, leadership and initiative are by far more important factors in determining the extent to which a person can push the limits to.
That's not the point of this thread, asshole.
I feel like the success = good grades connection, isnt based so much off of the "knowledge" that those good grades represent as much as what you had to do to get them. Like if I was ever in a hiring position I wudn't be looking for the 3.5+s because of "what" they know nearly as much as the fact that that 3.5 shows that they could grind....and that's who i want working for me. I'm sure there are ppl who do well in school without grinding, but having went to a non-target, I'm glad to say I didn't meet many.
This is the kind of mentality that perpetuates the myth that Einstein wasn't a very good student. Can people with less than stellar grade point averages become successful? Of course, but usually this means that they worked extraordinarily hard at something else. Like Goldman says, a great GPA doesn't imply success, but the key underlying elements here are hard work and some intelligence. And if you don't test yourself in school to see how capable a learner you really are, you may find yourself in a nightmare down the road.
Can't getting good grades be correlated to having a easy professor and bad grade be correlated to having a terrible professor?. Though I do believe that the emphasis on GPA is a little to high, I had someone told me that they would rather hire some with high GPA with no work experience than someone with low GPA but with work experience.
Similarly, I can say that the person with low GPA but lots of work experience is simply born into a very well-off family e.g. his dad has a thick phonebook and got him a BB internship after freshman year.
Yeah, the kinds of professors you get matters, but it is assumed that your GPA over 2-4 years of college is going to be the result of classes with professors of varying levels of difficulty. The overall trend is what matters, so I don't think people should look at a GPA and think "1 or 2 of these professors must have been extremely easy/tough."
Like others are saying, GPA isn't the most important thing, but it matters, for some people more than others. While I agree that it can be inspiring to know that having mediocre grades isn't a death sentence, it is by no means a reason to believe that grades are no not important.
I lol'd at this.
Understood Monkays
Not dissin' high grades, just sayin' a lot of legends don't see learning about accounting journal entries as somethin' productive.
What if you want to skip a class or two, show up in Tokyo, and take a couple home witcha? No harm done right?
At worst, a man's gonna learn how to survive in the bush
Bad grades mean (a) you're lazy (b) you're stupid (c) you have some explaining to do. If you're still in school, stfu and go study.
Well I am by no means an example of poor grades and being successful because I'm not that old enough to determine that...18 years old. To say there is no reasons besides stupidity and laziness as to getting poor grades is extremely ignorant. Can't you consider other factors like bad childhood, environment, or mental disabilities other then down syndrome but things like depression, bi-polar...As you can probably tell by my comment...I can relate. As for the guy that said "bad students are just trying to make themselves feel better about their low GPA.Like it or not, grades matter." Clearly you can tell he is or was a "good" student from his comment...On the otherhand very ironic statement..."good" students are just trying to justify their hardwork and accomplishment of getting good grades...not that hard to see right through you people...I have a 1.9 GPA in highschool. I'm not considering myself smart though.
Grades and going to the right school are a lot more important now than it was back then, due to increasing amount of structured hiring by top firms and the rise of the merit class.
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