Nathan Barry

If that takes you four hours, like, all right, well, that's on you.

And so all the usual complaining and lack of focus and everything else that I would do was immediately gone.

It was like, all right, let's power through.

Let's get math, get literature.

Like, let's knock all this out.

And this is like the most focused 11-year-old you've ever seen.

Yeah.

And 90 minutes later, I'm outside sledding.

School's done.

And it took me a while to internalize that lesson.

But I realized, basically, there's no speed limit at all.

You get to set the pace.

Because I'm like, wait a second.

Why have I been wasting all this time having school take four hours or five hours a day when I could just actually sit down and focus and knock this out?

And that's on me.

So that was one thing.

And then...

A few years later, I realized that all of my friends were older than me.

My older siblings were great at letting me hang out with them and their friends were my friends and they were super inclusive.

And that was great until I realized, oh, you all are going to go to college.