Does Overdrilling Ensure Success?

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Does over drilling ensure success? - Final When I was a child I have always thought that by studying hard and getting good grades in school ensures that I will have a successful career in future. After reading the article by Amy Chua, I realize that the yardstick for success cannot be measured just by scoring A’s in an examination through rigorous drilling or mastering a difficult music piece. Success is more than that. Success includes having the right attitude, aptitude, mindset and the ability to grab opportunities that are presented to oneself. Overdrilling will work in certain children who are bright, motivated and disciplined. Such children thrive on pressure and competition to spur them towards success. However, not all children can be nurtured in a pressure cooker environment as every child is different and has different talents. Parents owe their children the duty to encourage them to perform well in their areas of interest or in their pursuits. I can relate the article by Amy Chua to the “Death of a Salesman”. In the book, Willy wants his son Biff to be a successful salesman. He wants him to get a well-paying job and he nags at him all day to find a steady job. As Biff’s abilities do not match his father's expectations, he is unable to fulfill his father’s high hopes of a brilliant career in sales. Modern parents should not pressurize their child to perform way beyond the child’s abilities. A child has every right to choose what he wants to do in life and he should not be pushed to do something, which he has, no interest in, nor the talent for it. No doubt, all parents want their children to succeed in life but if a child does not have the aptitude for a particular vocation, why force him to do it? When a child fails to live up to his parents’ expectations, his parents will be disappointed with him. Likewise, Biff’s father, Willy, was

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