i asked @aweissman earlier this week “what is one framework you wish young people would stop using for decision-making?” he shared with me the concept of “ghosts and ancestors” which i havent been able to stop thinking about it he also wrote about it in 2019
When Jung said, “The greatest burden that a child must bear is the unlived life of the parents”—boy, if you’re a parent that really reminds you, “I better be doing my own work here, because where I’m stuck in life, my child, who I might profess to love, is either going to stay stuck or be spending their life trying to get unstuck.”
"Many of our habits and beliefs are learned from those who raised us. Which family story are you unconsciously repeating and reenacting? How can you rewrite the script to liberate yourself and the next generation?"
James Clear - email - 10 July 2025
