Sometimes in life we need tightly marked targets. It's not a matter of comparison, cowardness or any other B.S. adjective people often link nouns with.
Like our princpal from Army Public School used to use word "all-rounders" for kids who used mental models process or synthesis of multiple mental models from multiple disciplines, he called these lucky bastards "all-rounders". They were the guys who everyone looked up to. Maybe that's the reason they never let us peek into their process for mastery. But you know, as Charlie Munger says, some people are naturally a bit multidisciplinary and as a result, they get good grades in school. But they are ignorant and develop a sense of entitlement at an early age. When they should be put to test in harsh settings with real life situations with real stakes, these guys learn to stay in their logic bubbles. Then when they become adult, they never get to use whatever they studied in school. They are losers in real life. In essense, all their learning and synthesis abilities are brainwashed by the harsh realities of world once they are out of the womb of their teachers.
I'm proud that I was very needy in my time at school. I would always try to rival straight-A kids and I would never be able to do that, and the more time passed, the more I got frustrated. But thankfully, after coming out of Middle School, I was recommended the work of Charlie Munger, the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, and it opened my brain. I can think more clearly. I think the concept that grades automagically build the self-esteem of students is a B.S. concept. This system rewards the selected few, just few lucky bastards and then throws them into the very trenches they worked so hard to resist and to avoid. Well, for me I have internet, books and blueprints / hints, which is a good start. I hope to double down on the "execution part" with this Multidisciplinary attitude, which no doubt I'm so fond of.
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