Sublime

At the school, she talked about her own childhood and the barriers she’d had to overcome, how education had always provided her a path forward.

“Use it or lose it.”

Zeitlin had discovered that even the most destitute communities had successful outliers: families that had figured out a way to raise healthy children despite their bleak circumstances. Zeitlin called these individuals “positive deviants”—individuals or families who somehow managed to deviate from the health norms of the community in a good way.

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American psychologist Mary Ainsworth, demonstrates that secure attachment contributes to long-term success in health, relationships, and careers. It’s a greater predictor of success than conventional measures such as IQ. And of course, insecure attachment goes the other way. None of this should come as a surprise. For children, the primary relation

In fact, simply giving such resources to able-bodied poor people may reinforce the faulty stories of change that are locking them into material poverty in the first place, stories that tell them they are inferior, inadequate, and helpless.