On Books, and How I learned to Hate Myself
Sometimes, we fail our kids by helping them succeed.
3 min readSep 18, 2020
In elementary school, I was in a special program for gifted kids — a group of adorable little nerds who were much more inclined to read the encyclopedia than play street football after class. We met every other week with an advisor to work on fun projects that would challenge us outside of the normal…