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Cultivating Agency
I know this is controversial talk and antithetical to the success mantras of the metric obsessed, performative, materialistic, linear, Key Performance Indicator driven world we live in, but someone needs to play the role of the annoying child who questions lazily adhered to and potentially harmful conventions, if only to stress-test them. I mean, w... See more
Thomas J Bevan • On New Year's Resolutions
Individualism deemphasizes family and tradition, which leads to fewer people choosing to have children. The
Jean M. Twenge • Generations
So the difficulty in raising children from instinct, in a culture that is much more dangerous for them than wild animals in a more “primitive” setting might be, is that you don’t really have any external rules of thumb to follow. Everything must come from within, creating a constant trial-and-error process in which you run the risk of finding out,
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