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If you were already tabled that someone beat you at the top of the graduate class of your high school, let us offer a little refreshing, supported by researchSchadenfreude.As it turns out, receiving the best honors in your adolescence do not translate to great timeSuccesslater in life. In fact, a study of more than 80 valedictors and salutatorians (the best finishers, guys) reveal what to do with straight A means that you are almost intended for intermediate management.

Yes. Fleeers rejoice.

Eric Barker, the author of the new bookBary the bad tree: Surprising science behind why everything you know about success is (mainly) false, RecountCNBCThat students at the top of the class are well at school, but "do not become billionaires or people who change the world". Barker Low his claim for the research done by Karen Arnold, the author ofOf promise: which becomes of Valedictorian high school.

Graduated at the top of your class is hardly a recipe for failure, of course. But according to Arnold-who followed the career paths of all these Valedicorians and salutatorians after graduating - more than 90% of them ended up well paid positions in professional fields. Like the Barker summarizes, "they are reliable, coherent and well adjusted ... by all the measures, the majority have a good life." In other words, the top of your class will probably land in the middle of the pack and stay there until retirement.

So, it's 90%. What is the percentage of them who continue to "change", "run" or "impress" the world? What is the percentage of them who become heads of state, millionaires and inventors of society change technology?

Zero.

In fact, a survey of more than 700 millionaires has shown a figure perhaps surprising: the average amp among this ruling class was 2.9.

"[Notes] are no longer predictive of the success of subsequent life than to roll [a pair of] dice," says Barker.

So, do not feel bad about all these moments where you cut the class here and there to smoke joints and hunting skirts. These chances do not come twice. Make millions, on the other hand,can happen like that.

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