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[Brad @BradleyKellard]

Malcolm Gladwell revealed why you shouldn't go to Harvard:

1. America does not have a shortage of students who want science and math degrees. It has a shortage of students who finish them. Half of all high school seniors who intend to study STEM drop out by the end of their second year. The problem is not interest. It is persistence.

2. The obvious assumption is that smarter students persist longer. So Gladwell tested it. At Hartwick College, a small liberal arts school in New York, the top third of math SAT scorers took the majority of STEM degrees. The bottom third dropped out in large numbers. The data seemed to confirm it. Smarter kids stick around longer.

3. Then he looked at Harvard. The bottom third of Harvard's math SAT scores are equal to the top third at Hartwick. By the logic above, everyone at Harvard should graduate with a STEM degree. They are all brilliant. Nobody should be dropping out.

4. Harvard showed the exact same pattern as Hartwick. Top students graduated. Bottom students dropped out like flies. Even though the bottom Harvard students were objectively brilliant by any global standard. Something else entirely was driving the dropout rate.

5. That something is called relative deprivation theory. Human beings do not measure themselves against the world. They measure themselves against the people immediately around them. A Harvard student in the bottom third does not think I am in the top one percent of all students globally. They think that kid next to me keeps getting everything right and I keep getting it wrong. So they quit.

6. The research from UCLA puts a specific number on it. Your odds of graduating with a STEM degree fall by two percentage points for every ten point increase in the average SAT score of your peers. Choose Harvard over the University of Maryland and your chance of finishing a STEM degree drops by thirty percent. Thirty percent. Just to put a brand name on your resume.

7. Relative position matters more than absolute position when it comes to confidence, motivation, and self belief. The eightieth percentile student at Harvard looks up at the people above them and feels like they cannot compete. The number one student at a state school feels like they can conquer the world. That feeling drives everything.

8. The practical hiring implication is radical. Class rank matters more than institution name. Gladwell argues companies should have a don't ask don't tell policy for where someone went to college. Hiring only from top schools means missing the top students from every other school. That is not smart hiring. That is brand worship.

9. When choosing a college, never go to the best school you get into. Go to the school where you are guaranteed to be near the top of your class. Being a big fish in a smaller pond does not just feel better. It statistically produces better outcomes than being a small fish in the most prestigious pond available.

10. So why do we keep choosing Harvard over Maryland? Because we are flattered. Because the acceptance letter feels like validation. Because we make an irrational decision in a moment of enormous flattery and call it ambition. Gladwell's conclusion is simple and brutal. When we have the chance to join an elite institution we do things that are genuinely against our own interest and we feel great about it the whole time.

[𝚃 @T_wontmiss]

leaving things unsaid because saying them won't change a thing.

[Äeryn🌙⚡️ @dualedraumar]

Lack of purpose leads to romantic obsessions and limerence

[عبدالله عوض @Abdullah_1639]

الحصان الذي يعرف وجهته، لا تُشتته الغابة.

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: Study shows the most unforgettable childhood memories are family vacations between ages 5 to 10.

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

We are trained to go bigger, more money, more crypto, more AI agents, more friends, more projects, more plans, more everything, and less happy.

Happy people have a small circle of friends and simple routines.

[Masculine Order @gameth4ory]

6 Ways A Wife Ruins Her Home

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[Jesse Genet @jessegenet]

Education is going to get so fun y’all

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[Gaurav Dalmia @gdalmiathinks]

Worth reading.

[NewUs @newusof]

El estrés te está hinchando la cara y la barriga.

Meditar no es suficiente, baja tu cortisol de verdad con esto:

#1 Pon tu cara en agua fría

[Bright.web3 @brightafia]

the gym taught me that the goal was never the body. the goal was always the discipline. the body was just proof it worked.

[Pranav Mistry @pranavmistry]

https://t.co/EtsWj5MpWp
This is a gold mine for all #math lovers. A huge collection of Olympiad-level math problems. @MIT

[Logan @100WallStreet]

@saylor @Strategy 30 k buy.

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

BUILDING STRONG CHILDREN,WHAT TO DO AT EVERY STAGE:

1. 0–1 year: skin-to-skin contact builds trust and brain wiring
2. 1–2 years: let them explore freely — crawling and touching builds intelligence
3. 2–3 years: read aloud daily — language at this stage shapes everything
4. 3–5 years: imaginative play develops empathy and creativity together
5. 5–7 years: teach them to lose gracefully — resilience starts here
6. 7–9 years: give them small responsibilities — confidence grows from contribution
7. 9–11 years: encourage a hobby they chose themselves — not one you chose for them
8. 11–13 years: teach emotional vocabulary before puberty hits
9. 13–15 years: listen more than you speak — this age needs witnesses not lectures
10. 15–17 years: involve them in real decisions — they rise to what you trust them with
11. 17–18 years: teach them how to fail and recover, not just how to succeed
12. All ages: eat together — the family table is the original classroom
13. All ages: model the behaviour you want — they watch everything you do
14. All ages: say sorry when you are wrong — it teaches more than any lesson
15. All ages: tell them who they are, not just what they did

[Samrah @_Chemist1]

One of the clearest signs of calm mind: letting people talk shit about you.

[y @ysuckme]

depression comes from forgetting your potential.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

🚨 BREAKING: The FBI has successfully extracted deleted Signal messages from a suspect's iPhone via notification storage, the place where all your notifications are stored for up to one month.

Notification storage stores data from all messaging apps, it's a big flaw in iOS. But there's a way to turn it off...

[Art of Life 🦋 @Art0fLife_]

He literally explains how to activate the super conscious mind.

[Selina @selinatasnim1]

After 9 years in the gym and helping over 900 people lose between 9–36 kg, here are the best fitness tips I’ve learned:

1. Stop drinking alcohol.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

I STILL REMEMBER WHAT MY FATHER SAID: "If you need vacations to enjoy your life, you've built it wrong."
Here are 20 habits that make your life feel good on a normal day:
1. Wake up 30 minutes early and sit with coffee watching the sky change color