Meet the Dancing Prodity Who Turned Down Harvard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5rnD6u5EtY&ab_channel=Stories

Interviewer:  What lessons have you learned about success?

Rio Anderson: The most surprising thing, for me, has just been that success can come.  When I started and I was nowhere near the top of my class, and I never imagined any of this.  I really fell in love with dance when I discovered classical ballet and it's kind of strange, but what I like the most about it is just how challenging it is, and improvement that you see is directly proportional to what you put in.  You decide how hard you work and you decide how much better you get, and it's all on you.  Which that independence and control is really satisfying.