TOM BRADY AND THE SUPER BOWL
The 51 st Super Bowl is being played tonight. For a few hours, everyone will stop and watch two excellent teams battle it out for the right to be known as the ultimate champions. I sent the note below to my students this morning. I was not trying to convince them I was crazy or that I was obsessed. They probably already think that. I don�t care if they watch the Super Bowl. What I care about is that they realize that success (whether it is their success or Tom Brady�s success) comes from work and not from watching someone else be successful. I felt they needed to know that I was going to be upset if they show up for my class tomorrow poorly prepared because they had stared for hours at a television set watching a bunch of strangers 1,000 miles away becoming champions. I suspect that some people want to feel like champions without having to do any of the difficult work so they latch on to a team or to a ...