An over achieving society is an understatement for the difficulties that a young person these days faces when planning for the future. We are expected to perform in an extreme highly competitive academic learning environment, we have to keep up the pace so we wont be left behind. Could this type of environment that is meant to be productive and fruitful of knowledge actually be hindering us in the long run? The answer is Yes. In order to keep up, we have to sacrifice certain things to remain among the crowd and some of those things involve: sleep, social life, and family time. All three of these things are incredibly important to our development into happy healthy adults. If you have spare time you should really read Too-Busy Teens Feel Health Toll on the Washington post, it gives some great insight on how this over achieving, perfectionism society can cause great stress to students.