"A candle flame is easily blown out. A candle flame is fragile. If you have a candle flame you have to protect it with a glass sleeve because any puff of wind w

"A candle flame is easily blown out. A candle flame is fragile. If you have a candle flame you have to protect it with a glass sleeve because any puff of wind will extinguish it. But once it reaches the stage of a roaring fire, the more wind the better. So what Taleb said is that you want to be the fire and wish for the wind" -- Jonathan Haidt paraphrasing Nassim Taleb Haidt convincingly expands on this metaphor in terms of how we treat children in this Penn State lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5IGyHNvr7E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5IGyHNvr7E This summarizes his overall case neatly: We're increasingly handling our kids like fragile objects, stunting their maturity and reshaping western civilization in their image.