Vacation (No Internet) Day 3

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Play to your strengths.

Which perspective is more useful?  There are times that society demands perfoming outside our areas of skill (especially in school).  But as adults, we have far more flexibility.

Is it true that kids don't know what they'll do when they're older?  That's a common line when explaining why kids need to take classes they dislike.

I wonder...a longitudinal study tracking middle schoolers' preferences through, say, people's early 30s, might yield some interesting results.

(When I get back online, I'll return to a more typical pattern of posting.)