The phrase motivated underachiever was coined by Harvey P. Mandel and Sander I. Marcus and is explained well in this WikiEd article (http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Motivated_Underachiever):


For more on motivated underachievers, click on the above link.

The phrase is new to me; in fact, this is the first time I came across it. At first glance, it is ridiculous because, c'mon, how can an underachiever be motivated? But the presence of motivation, as per the article, does not pertain to wanting to achieve anything; rather, it refers to the exact opposite.

I googled the word underachiever because I'm working on a short film and a book on underachievers. I wanted to check out if anyone on the Internet takes notice of the seemingly brilliant people who haven't gotten anywhere. (Obviously, I consider myself one, and therein lies the reason for my interest in it.) Most of the hits I got involved those with clinically diagnosable illnesses or handicaps (for example, ADHD), but that's not what I wanted to look at. I wanted to see comments by or about seemingly healthy people who just don't push themselves hard enough to live up to their potentials. There would be all the reasons for why they would be successful, but while the average people have overtaken them in terms of recognizable achievements, they have stayed stuck, either content with their mediocre performance or unable to do anything to muster enough courage to risk stepping up.

So, if any of you actually read this and I have struck a chord, perhaps because you are that person or you know someone like that, I'd love to hear from you. Hit me with your motivated underachievers tales and let's make sense (or try, at least) of this condition. It is the underachievers' misfortune that, by the nature of this -- I'll say disorder for lack of an appropriate word -- disorder, very few will actually take notice.

Anyway, it's not life and death, not war and peace, but it may help put the pieces together for some of us. There's no final answer (I doubt if there is for any kind of social or psychological affliction of which this may arguably fall under) but as in all works-in-progress, we'll take it one day at a time.

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