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People live up to what you expect them to live up to. If you expect a 6 year old to run the grocery store you own while you're away, then they will Let make d
by johngladtj 3y ago
People live up to what you expect them to live up to.
If you expect a 6 year old to run the grocery store you own while you're away, then they will
Let make decisions and give them the agency to make those decisions, then they will.
The infantilization of people has caused far greater harm than almost any other thing.
- tivert 3y ago> People live up to what you expect them to live up to. > If you expect a 6 year old to run the grocery store you own while you're away, then they will... One of the problems with our society is the tendency to take a kernel of truth and then oversimplify and take it so far that it just becomes a total falsehood. Like your example of the 6 year old and the grocery store, there are certainly stores/communities where that's reasonable, but also lot of stores/communities where it isn't. There's no general rule there. > The infantilization of people has caused far greater harm than almost any other thing. ...and then there's the the hyperfocus that leads to a total lack of perspective.