If you put your best foot forward every time and learn what foot you step off with it is like the ability to write. Bright pupils are in the fast lane because they learn to write. The problem with being slow is that are left behind. You make decision for other people instead of yourself. But if you are bright enough not only will you make all the right decisions for yourself but you will teach other people how to do it too. It sounds a bit ambiguous and condescending but when it is actually so contagious that you take nearly everything to the nth degree the complacency of what is counterproductive costs money.

On the other hand if you race around at a hundred miles per hour everywhere you end up burnt out. If you take too much time then someone bips their horn. But bright pupils understand and know that to win they must succeed in everything and that can be detrimental to metal health long term and quick short term answers are not always the best possible scenario for family stability or relationships. Instead they may get you the top job but at a price most people can't afford and you become permanently unstable in energy to get there in the first place. Bright pupils are in the fast lane but usually it is a short term career, if you manage to work your way to the tip of your field and you are top of the class in most subject.

You are then punished differently for your excellence. Just as bright pupils are usually high achievers, their mutual morality and ethics need a lot to be desired. For the price of success is not money but loyalty like the cost of failure is not trying but lack of initiative and when both cases you use best in motivation instead of laziness you are not only a bright pupil but a successful achiever who lives life in the fast lane and then parks their car.