achievers

Neither the evidence of history nor logic supports working fewer hours as a viable life strategy for over-achievers.

The Leafs were under-achievers last year and recently hired arguably the best coach in the league in Mike Babcock.

Indians in the UK are similar - tend to be high achievers, middle-class, model minority etc.

So many will be high achievers, but stopped dead by a breakdown.).

There will always be high achievers like Sam, his career shows it.

It's because many of us come from families of high achievers.

Also applies to other kinds of uber achievers outside of entrepreneurship.

Most people disengage too early and never realize their full potential, others (the over achievers among us) tend to keep going until they burn out or worse.

Ron Unz used different methodologies for figuring out the percentage of Jewish 'top academic achievers' and the percentage of Jewish students attending elite colleges, making his statistics suspect.

But, you have a fixed resource to allocate (class sizes, dorm rooms), so that kicks out some of the (glut) of perfect achievers you would have otherwise accepted.

There are lots of jocks in Palo Alto but all the jocks I knew when I went to Paly were also academic high achievers.

I can see how high high achievers could tend to be extremely focused and driven, which in some cases would present in this way.

So I'd reserve the word "talent" for the highest achievers.

I also don't think there's anything wrong with people who are (over)achievers unless they feel achieving is "better" and view themselves (and others) as failures unless they have (over)achieved.