What separates genius from the merely accomplished?

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My nephew is in the doghouse because he scored the highest on the SAT for the entire state for the 7th grade with JHU talent search but has had his grades go from As & Bs to Bs & Cs. He’s brilliant and lazy which makes his parents crazy! He has sibs who struggle and are earn good grades through major sweat equity.

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<p>The cure for “brilliant but lazy” is giving kids challenging work. This quote is a perfect example of that. Non-brilliant kids who work hard can earn good grades. Brilliant kids who blow off work get lousy ones, especially in k-12 when half the grade comes from showing effort. We had this problem with S2 and solved it (as well as incipient discipline problems) by working with the school to allow him to skip several grades in math.</p>