• Question: How well did you do in school?

    Asked by shannonfvk to Matthew on 7 Mar 2014.
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      Matthew Malek answered on 7 Mar 2014:

      Not well at all — I must confess that I was a bit of a slacker in school!

      Here’s a story for you: In year nine, I had a friend and we both did pretty well without doing much work. As each year passed, though, things changed because we had different goals. His goal was to do the minimum work possible to get the best marks; my goal was to get the highest mark possible without doing work. Of course, as time went on and the courses got harder, my marks suffered.

      Made up for it later, though. I did fine at uni and finished top of my class in my postgraduate studies. (Even so, I don’t recommend that you take the slacker approach!)

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