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What makes you think one can make up for freedom lost during childhood? Our brains become rather rigid as we get older. One axiom for success is that it require
by gdubs 11y ago
What makes you think one can make up for freedom lost during childhood? Our brains become rather rigid as we get older. One axiom for success is that it requires a thousand failures. Learning how to cope with failure is arguably the most important thing you can teach a child.
And personally, I'd be proud to be the parent of the world's most mentally stable barista because life is about more than status.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoHonestly? > What makes you think one can make up for freedom lost during childhood? Our brains become rather rigid as we get older. If this was true in a practical sense, we'd have the government raising up kids, because parents pose too much a risk of producing a suboptimal generation. > And personally, I'd be proud to be the parent of the world's most mentally stable barista because life is about more than status. That's what those of us who didn't get to the top spots like to tell ourselves so that we may sleep better at night. Life may not be about status and money, but having the two makes it an order of magnitude better. Trying to tell yourself something else is denial, really. Don't get me wrong - I definitely don't encourage turning kids into zombies and making them jump arbitrary stupid hoops that one needs to get to a top-tier university or otherwise gain status. But that's the world we live in - rewarding bullshit instead of actual value. There is no point in pretending otherwise, and seeing things for what they are is (almost) always helpful.
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