The problem with being gifted is that you get used to doing everything effortlessly in school, and then with a little luck you end up on a top-notch University - and all of the sudden you're surrounded by people just as smart or smarter than you, and also more motivated and more ambitious, professors' standards are much higher and you're just not used to working hard. And on top of all that, there's family and peer pressure and expectations, to add to the stress. It sucks, and the only way around is to push gifted kids to work harder when young, giving them special, harder curriculums, forcing them to acquire self-discipline early on, when it's easier...
