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[quote=Anonymous]"Love the guy who claims it is actually character-building to screw up in college, and that it means you will go further than the “robots” who are responsible.

Interesting Fairytale. My child does not work hard for me, she works hard because she has figured out for herself that it is the path to HER goal.

For those if you whose path to success was low grades and vomiting over toilets... I am happy that you got your life together eventually. But do not try to claim that makes kids of your ilk superior . What a self-serving take on your own spotty biography.

Bet it really would amuse your siblings and poor parents."

We're not superior but we're not inferior either.  That is the point.  My parents screwed up much worse than I ever did.

You claim your daughter has figured it out for herself, good for her.  I hope she is right.  I certainly thought I was even in November of my first 1.0 semester.

We're trying to tell you that lots of people that think they know the path to their goal are wrong.  At that point, they may screw up for a year or two but then pull things together.

I remember my grad advisor tried to accuse me of not being responsible because I only worked 75 hours the week before I gave a practice talk he didn't like.

His threat was, "What are you going to do if you flunk out?"  I calmly told him I'd already flunked out twice and that I knew exactly how to handle it.

Because I knew how to handle flunking out, I took bigger risks and ended up with bigger rewards.

It's not the path for everyone but slow and steady is not the only way to win the race.
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