I tell this story often:
The local paper highlights senior honor students each spring. One that stood out last year was about a boy who was intelligent and skilled at many levels. He was a judo master, a musician, and athlete, a 4.0 student fluid in foreign language and a bit of a savant at math and physics. Scholarship offers were numerous for him.
In the interview he was asked what the greatest challenge his generation would face will be. His answer was, "Global Warming."
It struck me that this kid had done so much in spite of his teachers and has so much potential, yet this is what he came away from public high school with. I imagine it may only get worse depending on where he chooses for college.
“In the interview he was asked what the greatest challenge his generation would face will be. His answer was, “Global Warming.””
He is a conformist. A people pleaser.
This can be positive and negative.
He conformed to his family’s and his school’s and his community’s standards for excellence and obviously worked hard and excelled. However, he also conformed to the political agenda.
A non-conformist may not have done so well in school or sports, unless there were something he was really interested in; but he’d be more skeptical of the political agenda as well.