How to Have Good Ideas - Freakonomics
The decline of agency and resilience in adults, linked to overprotective parenting and phone-based childhoods that prevent risk-taking.
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And so you're going to yell at me. I take it. By the way, I'm not on social media, so I'm not going to see you yelling about me anymore. So go ahead, say it. But I worry we see too many people, I won't say all the people, but too many people who have no agency, no resiliency, no adaptability, take no initiative.
a friend of mine phrased it once my
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Exploring the concept of 'genius,' contrasting the healthy self-doubt required for growth with the historical idea of 'having a genius.'
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Right. And I want to ask you something, because I remember reading, I can't remember who it was who said, after, you know, having their first big success, they felt really unhappy and they felt really worried that like, has the biggest success I've ever had in my life happened? Like, and who am I now? I think that that kind of doubt is healthy. It
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