In my life, my parents have supported most of what I do. However, this is not to say that it has been easy to make my choice to move to Alaska. Although they believe in my ability to do well in my major, they also are very upset that I chose to go to a school as far away as I did. Time and time again they would ask me what I would do if I failed. Although their seeming lack of trust in my abilities hurt in the moment. I now realize that they simply were having a very difficult time letting me leave them. Parents rarely have it out for their children, and in my case they simply wanted to keep me from crashing and burning. As such, I would assert that respectfully showing your independence is the best way to go. It not only allows you to pursue what you dream of, but it also makes it clear how much you have grown up. Parents will always be proud to see their children mature, and by asserting yourself more, you will be showing them just that.
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Still, we will always need our poets and artists, our teachers and storytellers, our misfits and dreamers, contrarians and risk-takers.
Very well spoken. It makes me dream of doing something extraordinary.
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“What about professional video game player?”
This is always a hang-up for parents. I can understand why, but it is also very easy to see just how lucrative it really can be.
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It might sound aggressive to say one shouldn’t ask for permission, but it’s kinder not to expect a blessing from people who have no experience and only anxieties about your moonshot dreams.”
This does an excellent job at showing how to respectfully take your own path.
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Then there’s the strategy that Zia Haider Rahman, a writer, advises: “Lie.”
This is unwise advice. It is always better to have an uncomfortable conversation than to make fools of those who invest in you.
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try to bust out an early draft, give yourself a day or two off, and then come back to it.
I definitely need this.
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But Maguire also drastically misunderstands the characteristics of good writing.
Wording a sentence like this is only asking for retaliation and shows how most academic writing is meant to tear down another's opinion. Was Maguire correct in his assessment? Probably not, but it doesn't help to assume a place of greater knowledge than him.
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“I’m a teacher, and I know what Mr. Miyagi did — he tricked the kid into learning. He got him to do important behaviors first, and didn’t reveal where they fit into the overall skill until later.”
I understand that he has some valid points, but he is being just as foolish as he claims his students are when he thinks that he can take the plot of a movie as a literal guide to a skill.
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