[DustyMoment]

"I'm good enough."

Try this stat for an eye opener (it's a valid stat, by the way): "Are you better than 1 in 20? Because only 1 in 20 make it from college into the NFL. The rest use up their college eligibility and wind up with nothing. They never went to class, never studied, never graduated - they only played football. So, if you're not better than 1 in 20, what's plan B?"

[brytlea]

Most of my students would have told me they WERE better than one in twenty (even tho most of them never even got a college scholarship). It was amazing how good they were at ignoring and denying reality. I think there are going to be a large number of very bitter people in the next 20 years who were told they could be anything, do anything, etc. When they discover it wasn't true, they're going to hate those who told them it was....
susie