<p>Ok, I can’t read.</p>
<p>My point stands though. Even with all that, you should still have tons of free time.</p>
<p>“It’s just that I value academics more than he does. I value it to the degree that I would base my self-worth on it (not like I can help it).”</p>
<p>My advice to you is this: stop focusing so much on school and get out of the habit of judging yourself based on your grades and scores. Anyone or anything that is pushing you to view your world in this warped way is a destuctive influence that you should recoginize as such. Truly successful people value their work ethic, but would absolutely never equate self-worth with academic standing. If you gain one thing from high school, let it be confidence in yourself that is not tied to meeting the expectations of others (or, for that matter, yourself).</p>