Helping child find a "passion"

Northstarmom
Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:27:12 +0000

" Why bother with passion at all? Since the goal is to pick and choose, why not just go with super-achievement (since passion is pretty much a necessary condition for super-achievement)."

Passion isn’t a necessity for super achievement. Sometimes students do very well on thins like math exams because their parents have forced them to do lots of extra study including the parents’ paying for extra tutoring. The same is true for some other things that may seem to be super achievements until one looks very closely at the student’s accomplishment.

Meanwhile, most students who are applying to college get into their first choice school. Few fret over things like passion. It’s only a very small proportion of students who are fretting about passion, and in general, the students who have passion don’t worry about it. They are too involved in pursuing their passions to fret over whether they are going to impress admissions officers.