What Straight-A Students Get Wrong
Wharton’s Adam Grant offers useful advice for college
students:
“The evidence is
clear: Academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career excellence.
Across industries, research shows that the correlation between grades and job
performance is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a
handful of years....
If your goal is to
graduate without a blemish on your transcript, you end up taking easier classes
and staying within your comfort zone. If you’re willing to tolerate the
occasional B, you can learn to program in Python while struggling to decipher
“Finnegans Wake.” You gain experience coping with failures and setbacks, which
builds resilience.”