The only way to achieve great things is to have ambitious goals.<p>To put it another way, are the many HN articles about starting your own business encouraging potential entrepreneurs to reach "beyond their means"?  Who is to decide what another persons "means" are?  How do you know?<p>I ask this in all seriousness, because to my knowledge there's been very little success in finding any early childhood characteristics that have a strong positive correlation to adult success.  If I'm incorrect on that I'd love to see some links to studies that <i>do</i> show that adult success can be pre-judged in childhood with a high degree of accuracy.<p>Besides, as Thomas Edison supposedly said.. "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration".  By encouraging children to pursue very ambitious goals and to NOT settle for what they consider beneath them, perhaps we can help them to develop the drive needed for that 99% perspiration.