Two PhD's .. The fields he was in often take 1 year.  (Physics and Chemistry)  Personal experience.  I did much the same personally ... without the advantages of computers and CLEP testing with the same sort of abuse. My stepfather told me Science never did the world any good; I was wasting my time.  Honestly to me Duncan just a bit above average.  His biggest advantage over me was the development of the internet before he was born.  He jumped past all his grades after age 11-12 by just getting his GED.  He no longer needed high school to take college level courses.  He CLEP'd through most studying at his own pace.  Heck, I started with 20 semester hours in college.  People looked at me like I was crazy.  140 pages of reading a day.  But a year later I still had a perfect GPA and in Physics and Chemistry I had 100's on everything.

 I have spent a lifetime dealing with people who just aren't comfortable with anyone being that smart.  I would literally write up a synthesis procedure for a new molecule in minutes and have it submitted and approved within the hour - and thought it was easy.  It comes off as sounding arrogant, I know.  I got so fed up I left the field of science behind nearly 20 years ago.

However ... understood ... Please don't think me upset.  Not the first time I have dealt with this.  And if you still want to quit, I understand.

Let's drop the PhD's and have them as WIP's.  The football stuff?  All he did was start putting points on the board by kicking field goals.  His old sport was soccer.  Kicker was the only position he could handle.  FYI, it only takes a couple weeks to recover from a gunshot wound enough to move around.  His right side was almost untouched.

He did not fight the 12 gang all at one time.  He hit them in waves.  He used the weapons from the first wave against the rest.

If I have missed something here holler.