I may never learn to program, and I am sure in my learning process there will be set-backs and failures. I have after all tried over the course of the last several years to learn a little bit pf programing. Just because I want does not make it so.
I may never be a developer, but that is not what I am really striving for. The I/you can be/do anything you want really does set people up for failure, and the view people take of failure is not a very good one. I will learn something, already have actually, and I will fail over and over again, but that failure is part of the learning process.
I know I will never be President of the USA, but that does not mean I can not be President of the local book club chapter, or start my own thing where I am the President.
RE: You can do anything - and other lies