Philip Soriano
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Philip Soriano
writing a book is nothing more than a heroic act of unification. How does this work? Well, the book has a spine. A dharma. But you don’t know what its dharma is until you begin to write it. Forget about all the things you said to yourself about your book at the beginning of the project—or what you told your editor, or what you wrote in your brillia
... See morefrom The Great Work of Your Life by Stephen Cope
the gap in sentencing is six times greater for men versus women than it is for blacks versus whites.26 Black boys, of course, bear the dual burden of both racism and sexism.
from The Boy Crisis by John Gray PhD
- “Those who love us plan for our beginning. Those we love need a plan for our ending.” —April Koontz, MSW, Founder, Daughters Unite
from Leaving a Legacy: A Lasting Gift to Loved Ones by Merrill Lynch Wealth Management
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.
from The Boy Crisis by John Gray PhD
being an involved dad creates a “dad brain” that replaces his single-man desires. He’ll experience a decrease in the testosterone previously used in the hunt for sex and recovery after rejection, and an increase in oxytocin emanating from the joys of loving and being loved by an infant who needs him.
from The Boy Crisis by John Gray PhD
- The high centrality participants, Sievers and his coauthors wrote, were much more “likely to adapt their own brain activity to the group,” and “played an outsized role in creating group alignment by facilitating conversation.” But they didn’t merely mirror others—rather, they gently led people, nudging them to hear one another, or to explain themse... See more
can human beings come to understand their own well-being as linked to that of others, in wider and wider circles, beyond family and tribe?
from Becoming Wise by Krista Tippett
Mentorship and Community
Between quality childcare and longer parental leaves, the bigger contributor to a healthy and productive son is a longer parental leave.
from The Boy Crisis by John Gray PhD
dads’ greater tendency to take their children to parks or playgrounds, or teach them by doing, such as being a “sous-chef” with dad in the kitchen. They also missed the games dads tend to create to make otherwise boring activities fun—such as turning a shopping cart into a basketball hoop and toilet paper into a ball.
from The Boy Crisis by John Gray PhD