Teacher's pet? No. Strategic excellence with a clipboard. Okay — slightly pet.
First to arrive. Remembers the instructions from three meetings ago. Somehow already did the thing that was about to be assigned. The Eye sees you with great fondness, because you are a very specific machine: you run on approval from whoever's holding the clipboard, and you have turned that fuel into genuine, undeniable excellence. At school it was teachers. At work it's your manager, who describes you in performance reviews with words like 'godsend.' In the friend group, you're the one the parents ask about by name. The others tease you mercilessly — and copy your notes, rely on your reminders, and panic when you're absent. Here's what the Eye wants you to actually hear, though, past the gold stars: your competence is real. It would survive without the witness. Somewhere along the line, being good and being SEEN being good fused into one feeling, and you've never run the experiment that separates them. The Eye would very much like to watch that experiment.
Get your read — free on iPhonethe gold stars were never the point. you just never figured out how to know you're good without a witness.