Millions of Americans Are Missing Their Full Potential

Debbie Patskowski
6 min readMar 17, 2022

Are You One of Them?

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When I was a kid, I prided myself on being smart. I was a nerd, the teacher’s pet, little miss know-it-all. I had no idea how annoying that must have been for everyone else around me (sorry, Meadowbrook Elementary School), but being smart was part of my identity. College brought my ego down to an acceptable level, thankfully. Yet, when I read a…

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Debbie Patskowski

Geoscientist, runner, and writer. I will never stop being curious about the world.