New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: The most impressive non-academic achievement?
Ask HN: The most impressive non-academic achievement?
2 by neilshevlin | 1 comments on Hacker News.
It hit me when filling out an application form that most of my achievements have been largely academic. Other than that I've spent most of my time exercising, socialising and volunteering. Nothing outstanding. I haven't done any expeditions, climbed high mountains or led a sports team to victory. I wondered what some of the most impressive things you had seen in young people were. Obviously you will have outliers who have started companies at 16 and sold them for a few hundred thousand etc. But what are the things that you've heard of, or in fact done yourself that you've thought "Yeah wow, thats bloody impressive!" Or perhaps I'm looking at this question the wrong way?
2 by neilshevlin | 1 comments on Hacker News.
It hit me when filling out an application form that most of my achievements have been largely academic. Other than that I've spent most of my time exercising, socialising and volunteering. Nothing outstanding. I haven't done any expeditions, climbed high mountains or led a sports team to victory. I wondered what some of the most impressive things you had seen in young people were. Obviously you will have outliers who have started companies at 16 and sold them for a few hundred thousand etc. But what are the things that you've heard of, or in fact done yourself that you've thought "Yeah wow, thats bloody impressive!" Or perhaps I'm looking at this question the wrong way?
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