<p>Don’t get me wrong, I believe in people following their dreams and encouraging our kids to do so. </p>
<p>Where I think what “Magic Feather Syndrome” fails its audience is in how it sidesteps all the sweat, hard work, frustration, and even failure that goes into the process. As Debbie Allen’s character said to a studio full of dancers at the beginning of the movie Fame, “You’ve got big dreams? You want fame? Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying … in sweat.”</p>
<p>If anything, I think what today’s young people have largely been shielded from by their parents (us) is sweat (both literal and otherwise).</p>