Philip Soriano
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Philip Soriano
Midlife moment: looking back at choices made for survival and realizing they kept you alive but not living—and wondering what version of yourself might exist if you could get a second chance at those moments.
Ashley Kelschsubstack.comThe commerce of masculinity is the trading of wit-covered put-downs. Your son will experience it in junior high school. And he’ll experience it even more powerfully if he joins a fraternity. Despite the negative stereotypes, fraternity brothers often bond for a lifetime, sometimes becoming among the few long-lasting friends men have.
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
We have seen that the amount of time a father spends with a child is “one of the strongest predictors of empathy in adulthood.”6 Teaching a child to treat boundaries seriously teaches him or her to respect the needs of others.
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
Item. A study of ISIS fighters concluded that almost all had in common “some type of an ‘absent father’ syndrome.”9
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
Smart people are a dime a dozen and often don’t amount to much. What counts is being creative and imaginative.
Invent and Wander Quotes by Jeff Bezos
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Kulwant Saluja • The Unlived Life: Carl Jung’s Profound Insight into Parental Influence
Fatherhood and Parenting
Carl Jung
I think we are moving away from the era of social media and into an era of online micro-communities. More intentional, less chaos. Smaller, but more valuable. More boundaries, more containment.
We were never made to read the unhinged thoughts of hundreds of strangers each day, but we were made to gather around fires... See more
Laura Matsue Guenthersubstack.comOne of the biggest shifts in mindset around inheritance is that most Americans now favor the idea of “giving while living.” Two-thirds say they prefer to distribute part of their estate, 30% on average, while still alive (Figure 5) . That provides both a means of directing the distribution and the opportunity to see the inheritance benefiting the... See more
Merrill Lynch Wealth Management • Leaving a Legacy: A Lasting Gift to Loved Ones
And if your cravings can't be beaten by mere reasoning, then consider rearranging your lifestyle so junk info is simply not an option. The way I beat intellectual obesity was by trying to become the best writer I can be. Writing requires you to filter out bad information because you have a duty to your readers to not be full of shit. Writing also... See more
Gurwinder • The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
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