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The Best Students Aren’t The Most Successful

6 Nov 2025 · 0 min

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This content was created by Lewis Howes. This content was uploaded by Lewis Howes. This is a YouTube video titled "The Best Students Aren’t The Most Successful" created on November 6, 2025, discussing the disconnect between academic success and emotional well-being, highlighting issues like anxiety and imposter syndrome among students.

The students with the greatest academic skills are not the ones who succeed the most. Really? Why is that? Because they can't deal with their emotions. They can study and get good grades. Then they get anxious. Upwards of 80% of the students report having anxiety right now. So if our definition of success is getting into a high powered university and being anxious all the time, or depression or imposter syndrome, I don't know. That makes no sense to me. I know what it's like to be anxious. I've lived with anxiety. That's not something you want to live with.