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To: Rambi who wrote (17015)	1/26/1999 11:02:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

Well, I don't think we disagree. My point was that people with a narrow focus will find it easier to achieve certain goals. Not everyone has a broad focus, so they are not sacrificing anything to achieve that narrow focus. I remember looking at the bookcase in the living room of a history professor, and being surprised, because everything on his bookcase was about history. Most people have a broad focus, and I used to think that people with narrow focuses were somehow narrow-minded, but I don't think that anymore. My children are aware of my position on this, that if they want to achieve certain goals they will have to work very hard and not go off on tangents, but that, if they don't want those goals, they don't have to kill themselves to make good grades, etc. My older son's grades are weak for his intelligence level, he has a B plus average, for example, he is taking Geometry in the eighth grade (normally taken in tenth) and only has a C in geometry. His best friend, Stephen, makes all A's and suffers if he gets a B. He wonders why Stephen is like that. I have explained that all A's are good for certain career paths, but not essential. Stephen, for example, actually wants to be in theater, so his A's are not going to do much for him, I don't think. Maybe it will help him get a Rhodes Scholarship, but I don't know how that will help in the theater.