I knew someone who majored in Physics, let it go to their head, and took an introductory Linguistics course, dismissively saying it would be an easy A. They flunked the class, admittedly with no shortage of schadenfreude on my part. I also knew plenty of programmers who gravitated to CS in large part _because_ they wouldn&#x27;t have to do much writing. People who were great at taming the computer but could barely string coherent sentences together, let alone meaningfully exploring the human condition. Something that turns out to be incredibly relevant when building software that, in some form or another, responds to and shapes that condition. If anything, tech as we know it is demonstrably suffering from a lack of exposure to the humanities.<p>What might look to you like &quot;giving up&quot; often more closely resembles &quot;finding one&#x27;s strengths&quot;. Not everyone is good at STEM, true, but then again that&#x27;s not the problem with your attitude. It&#x27;s the implication that having an aptitude outside of STEM entails some kind of intellectual deficit.