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Originally Posted by MRM
The kids in Last Chance U are at Last Chance U because they were unprepared and didn't make it the first time around. Its so sad because they're failing not just because they don't know how to follow the rules to be successful, they're unaware there are rules that need to be followed to become successful. No one is teaching them the rules or how to get ahead in life.
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But following the rules never got Steve Jobs or Donald Trump or any other aggressive entrepreneur to where they wanted to be and are today. At least that was one version of the official story anyways. It just forgot the part where Einstein quoted
"genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration". That second part has languished in our modern culture. It is human nature to get to a point, claim success, sit on the couch watching tv, and then die of heart attack a year later. Nature reclaims itself, that b***ch. We get lax and step on a land mine in the back yard.
Parents need to go let their kids dig in the dirt, roll in the grass, get bruised and bleed a little without blaming anyone else. Then they also need to show their kids how the adults do it. The responsibilities of bills, how to organize paperwork, how to fight the BS, how to self-audit and reflect on what worked and what didn't.
It's even worse when the highest levels of society tell the kids "rules don't matter"...
Actually it is good for students to follow the rules until they no longer pertain to reality. To have a basis, a fallback, a place of comfort and nurturing that is always they for them when returning home. Rules are similar to any type of social organization. Mother, wife, family, friends, or even one's own skin to be comfortable....until the student understands the basic rules and skill sets they will need to use to venture further they should practice with what they know.
Standing on the shoulders of past giants.
To forgo instant success or validation or distractions. To run the long game.
And then to take off from that vantage point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_Genius_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Short_(film)
Turtle flying across the sky since the dawn of time.
Then success goes to taking the calculated risk venturing into the great unknown like polynesians and vikings. And failing. And learning. And trying again. Until something sticks. Even the slightest at first. Then more. Then validation at the most basic level. Then failure. The bottom. Then starting anew slightly different again and again.
The only thing that should stay consistent is to stay hungry at whatever level they are at.