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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some kids are obsessed with school and learning and ECs... some are obsessed with sports and hate school... some overachievers are obsessed with school and learning AND sports/ECs... and some are apathetic and into nothing but pissing their life away on the couch.

The glass is half full comments are acting like kids into nothing are actually closet geniuses who magically turn into motivated goal-orientated professionals. I'm sorry, that's a delusional outlook. If you're an unmotivated loser you're not absorbing knowledge or skills at school or at home. You remain a dullard.

Read Gladwell's Outliers book, you need reps or 10,000 hours of doing something to become good. Kids become good public speakers getting public speaking reps. Kids become great writers writing a lot. Kids become the next Mark Zuckerberg writing code in their teens. You get the idea. The only thing a kid like OP described is going to be good at is video games and ordering pizza with mom's credit card as that's what his 10,000 hours were spent doing.[/quote]

This parent is why so many kids have anxiety.

Either you are and outlier or a loser... geez, wtf.[/quote]

+10000[/quote]

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