Secrets

Stuff Carl doesn't advertise…

Carl was one of those weird kids.

He was reading at two years old, writing not long after, and already performed high level mental arithmetic by the time he started school at five years old.

His writing was first published in a noted literary magazine when he was just thirteen.

This precociousness caused issues in his schooling. At fourteen, on the advice of then Chairman of MENSA, Sir Clive Sinclair, Carl underwent a supervised IQ test at University College, London. He achieved a score of 177 (matched or exceeded by just 1 in 7 million people). Such a result both explained and exacerbated his struggles. However, he opted not to join MENSA, as he did not wish to face the kind of media attention so-called "prodigies" often faced.

He attended multiple schools, sat GCSE and A-Level exams years ahead of his contemporaries, and ultimately interviewed for admission to Oxford University at just fifteen years old.

Opting instead to delay matriculation by a year, he went on to achieve the second highest grade out of two hundred students (Salutatorian) in his BA (Hons) Philosophy at nineteen. He won an AHRB Scholarship to pursue an MA, receiving his postgraduate degree at twenty.

Carl's noted academic achievements include publishing his first collection of poetry at seventeen, his debut novel at twenty one, and a mathematical model to establish "total individuality in relation to collective societies" at twenty two.

Then he got a job.