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Emily Oster on the Family Firm

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Is Your Child Good at Something That You Don't Want to Be?

i think it's a fascinating thing that we want our kids to be a lot like us, even though we don't want to be like our parents. We have an episode coming out with paul bloom that you haven't heard yet. He quotes dan gilbert on the five per cent of your day when all you do is sit in the pool. And i'll just saya this way, i don't agreewith the idea that if we're happy 95 % of the time, and the other five percent of the time we'r just feel guilty about it ecause we're not doing anything else productive. I dont want my kids to have that life. They may choose

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