unoptimal

Example I: "Duncan Sabien is a teacher and a writer."

This is a true sentence. People who know me very, very well, upon hearing this sentence, will nod. It's a  good fit,  retrospectively, for the data.

However, if you are attempting to give someone a sense of me up-front, saying "Duncan Sabien is a teacher and a writer" is an unusually bad start.

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Society has spent a lot of time conditioning us to think of the tryers as better than the slackers. Being a tryer is a virtue. Slackers are missing the point of education; why are they even there? The tryers are going to go places, the slackers will never amount to anything.

But in fact, both groups are doing it wrong.

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