Comment by SkepticalExcitement on Rationality Quotes April 2014 · 2014-04-08T19:46:09.574Z · LW · GW

Word of advice: don't put too much attention into your "potential". That's an unfalsifiable hypothesis that you can use to inflate your ego without actually, you know, being good. Look at your actual results, and only those.

Comment by SkepticalExcitement on Rationality Quotes April 2014 · 2014-04-07T15:29:51.605Z · LW · GW

even though I should be top of the class.

Why do you think that?