tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11255432534539136682011-10-02T04:58:24.249-07:00Championing a Broader Vision of Success for YouthEmerson Swanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10362393004471814688noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125543253453913668.post-82898337018133064582011-10-02T04:51:00.000-07:002011-10-02T04:58:24.307-07:00

This offering comes to us from Leah Messing, a college student and good friend of Challenge Success. Thank you for your insights, Leah!Sincerely,The Challenge Success TeamIn his novel The Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell examines the lives of today’s greatest success stories with a critical lens. He defies the common belief that any individual can rise through the top through purely hard work. Rather

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Our latest article comes from Michael Stern, a student at Menlo School in Atherton, California. Thank you, Michael Sincerely, The Challenge Success Team I recently watched Race To Nowhere, a documentary that illuminates the problems in our education system. The documentary speaks of students who are sleep-deprived, unhealthy, and largely unhappy. Kids are under pressure to juggle unreasonable

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Today's offering comes from another good friend of Challenge Success, Maria Pascucci. Maria is the founder and president of CampusCalm.com and author of the award-winning book Campus Calm University: The College Student’s 10-Step Blueprint to Stop Stressing & Create a Happy, Purposeful Life.Maria, thank you!Cheers,The Challenge Success TeamNew Semester = your new choice to celebrate the

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Another close friend of ours, and one of our founders, is Jim Lobdell. Jim sent us the following, and we certainly do THANK YOU for it, Jim! You present some very useful thoughts.Cheers,EmersonSports BlogI love sports. Throughout my childhood, I played pick-up games of virtually every ball sport, and then swam and played water polo in high school. In college, I played on two NCAA championship

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Our good friend, nationally recognized educator Rick Ackerly has shared this with us at Challenge Success, and I share it with you. You can lean more about Rick at his web site http://rickackerly.com. Thank you, Rick!How to Help Our Pressured Kids?One day, Helen, age 3, was scooping sand into a bucket with a cup. Her teacher came by and (good constructivist teacher that she is) said, “So, Helen

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Today, a young person's success is too often measured by easily-observed symbols: trophies, grades, test scores, and acceptance into prestigious schools. Expectations once reserved for a small group of exceptional students are now expected of many.Students are experiencing unacceptably high levels of anxiety disorders, depression, substance abuse, suicide, poor physical health, and disengagement

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