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This is 100% true. I was fantastic at school. I could read the book and just remember it all when it came time for class and crushed every q&a, quiz, assessment or test offered to us at every stage.
When I got to college I found the hardest part to be committing to the work since so little of it could be done in class. I still did pretty okay in college because most of it seemed to just be an assessment of what you knew and could do in the moment, but I definitely struggled with time management having never built up the skills necessary to study or knuckle down for a couple of days to cram.
Where it hit most was with foreign language and computer science classes. My Japanese is shit, but I was able to fall back on my obsession with electronics to make a career out of computer science.
I got really fucking lucky I think, because I did well in school but I was not very good at it. I know plenty of people that didn't get the GPA I did or have all AP classes that are currently doing extremely well for themselves because they learned one of the more important skills you can learn in school, discipline.