A Learners Fight: Adaptation vs. Education

Education saves time. Adaptation sharpens instincts.

My grades sucked at high school.

And I failed my first two years of university.

Then got top of the class for the next three years.

In school I’d rather play Call of Duty than do assignments or study for a test.

I ran the best Esports team in Australia before they called it Esports.

Me and a few school friends.

Every night we’d get on and play for hours making strategies and practicing.

We had to. The match was on Friday and again on Saturday if we won. Against other good teams. And they’d be doing similar things.

I was smart enough to pass an exam when I needed to.

Or smart enough to use my Dad’s login (he was a teacher at the school) to hack the smarter kids’ accounts and steal their assignments and copy them and make their work better in enough places to get good marks and not get caught.

At university I was more interested in girls than classes.

My first year I kept pinching myself.

You don’t have to go to the classes?

I can just sit here under this tree and talk to pretty girls?

Hell yeah.

So I did.