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When I was in medical school, I knew a guy who almost never showed up. He skipped lectures. Called in sick for labs and tutorials. Basically vanished for most of the year. The night before our second-year finals, he was hanging out at my place and casually mentioned that he’d spent the last week watching the entire year’s lectures at 2x speed. I thought he was doomed. He ended up placing in the top 10 out of roughly 300 students. In every exam. The crazy part wasn’t just that he remembered the material. He had a deeper, more practical understanding of it than a lot of people who had attended every lecture. Watching him was both impressive and slightly terrifying. I always thought that if he ever decided to fully apply himself, he’d be unstoppable. But he seemed perfectly happy doing the bare minimum and still outperforming almost everyone.