Back-Mapping from Success: What I Wish I Had Known

(originally published at www.catapultlearning.com) 


My wife and I were talking to one of her cousins over the
holidays—a gangly, lanky kid of 20 who has floundered and flopped through
schools with little purpose or success, but who is trying to tackle college in
small bites. He took two classes last semester and failed both. Everyone was
frustrated with him. Two classes! That’s all you had!