Why Nerds are Unpopular
BlogPaul GrahamJun 14, 2003
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Smart kids are unpopular in American high school not because being smart is uncool, but because they don't focus on popularity. Popularity is a job, requiring constant attention. Nerds opt out, then pay the social price. The payoff comes after high school.
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February 2003 When we were in junior high school, my friend Rich and I made a map of the school lunch tables according to popularity. This was easy to do, because kids only ate lunch with others of about the same popularity. We graded them from A to E. A tables were full of football players and…
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