How Josh Childress got into Stanford

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09-11-2014, 12:30 PM

(09-11-2014, 08:38 AM)Mick link Wrote:With my 14 year old sons starting high school, I tried to frame scholastic pursuit and achievementÂ in terms they could understand; e.g., "if you get A's, you'll live in that mansion with that wife, if you get B's you'll live in that house with that wife and if you get C's, you'll live under that bridge with no wife."Â Seems to have worked.

I don't know. Eventually they figure out there are a lot of idiots with mansions and hot wives, and a lot of scholars with neither.

Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working.I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. Peter Gibbons

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09-11-2014, 12:30 PM

(09-11-2014, 08:38 AM)Mick link Wrote:With my 14 year old sons starting high school, I tried to frame scholastic pursuit and achievementÂ in terms they could understand; e.g., "if you get A's, you'll live in that mansion with that wife, if you get B's you'll live in that house with that wife and if you get C's, you'll live under that bridge with no wife."Â Seems to have worked.

I don't know. Eventually they figure out there are a lot of idiots with mansions and hot wives, and a lot of scholars with neither.

Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working.I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. Peter Gibbons

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