Why A&B students work for C&D students

Robert Kyosaki said that at one point and it stuck with me.

The A student gets that way by doing what they are told to do and generally they don't question it. This is what students do; they do work that they are told to do and that is good enough. They get affirmation from the teacher, they get affirmation from their parents.

Here is the rub. They don't know why are doing what they are doing and then go out in to the world and do what they are supposed to do while they watch people that were much worse at school start businesses and make money.

C&D students were that way for two reasons. Some were just not very bright; they wanted to be good students and get all of that praise but nothing quite stuck long enough to get the test answered right.

Then there were the kids that asked why are we doing this that were chastised for doing that. They want to do something important. They are plenty competent but "not engaged" or "don't care" or even ADHD.

Just a quick note if you have ever seen the latter in front of a video game you will see extreme focus. They just cannot operate in a "do it because I said so" world. They also tend to not function well with the lowest form of leadership which is positional.

I kind of feel sorry for the A student. They tend toward activity that they are told will yield an outcome and don't' realize that teachers never set a foot outside of a school room. The teacher has been in a class room since the age of 5 and have prepared you not just for a time that has long passed but they prepared you for a time that they had only heard of and never actually experienced.

It takes a while to make the adjustment from how school works and the kind of society it is prepping you for. It can take years to overcome this because you need to be able to ask why. And why means questioning things. The A student does not question things and they stay stuck until the time comes that they do.