See, it's definitely cool to be gifted, but I think it's also cool to be passionate about your cause, whatever it may be. I mean, a lot of my young cool friends are vegans, or hard core war protestors, or random entrepeneurs. I don't think it's uncool to work for something and want something, I think it's uncool to cross that invisible line into "trying too hard." And I hate myself for it, but I do ridicule people who try too hard. Probably because they're less self-conscious than I am, and I'm impressed by that.

Anyway. Good luck!