Reply #10: It's a matter of motivation

[laconicsax]

Grades have nothing to do with intelligence, especially in high school. They're entirely motivation. I'm fairly intelligent and have an IQ of about 150. I could have been a valedictorian in high school, but I didn't have the motivation. I did the least amount of work to meet the minimum requirements for my classes and graduated with a 3.5. Now, in college, I have more motivation and my GPA's at 3.85 or so.

In my graudating class (2002), there were a lot of stupid guys, and stupid girls. More girls were on the honor roll. The attitude of most of the guys and girls on the honor roll was good grades=good college=good job. More girls had this attitude than guys. I don't know why though.

I have gotten the distinct impression, now that I'm in college, that more girls actually care about having a good career and doing well in life while they're still in school. That's what makes the difference. Most of the guys I go to school with don't have any career aspirations or idea of what they'll do once they're out of school. They go to class, don't pay attention, and don't care. They get back from class, drink, get high (pot or cocaine) and play video games until around 2AM--every day.

Guys are simply falling behind because for whatever reason, they stopped caring while at the same time, girls started caring more.