As a young person, you have to kil! approval addiction before it kil!s you. The desperate desire to always be validated by people will ruin your life.
Your entire life cannot be lived trying to prove a point. Please, release yourself.
You will be tempted to show that you are doing well, but it is important you resist the urge to perform for an audience that don’t matter - and maybe isn’t even watching
I’ve said this before and I hate to gild the lily, but it’s worth threading this for the sake of younger folks. What makes someone exceptional in thought is not necessarily intelligence. It’s resistance. To think well, you must first refuse to think lazily.