Maturity to Handle Success
This is a subject I often talk about on my radio show and this blog. Clemson has to do this weekend what most of us can't do. They have to be mature enough to handle success.
Human beings are survivalists. We are at our best when times are at there worst.
In my lifetime, the two best times in this country in terms of national pride came off of our worst times. In the late 1970s, the Carter administration had this country in crisis mode. In the early 1980s, we rallied and felt the best about the nation as any time in my lifetime.