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David Epstein: Curiosity as a Calling S2 E11

Meditations with Zohar

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The Importance of Specialism in Parenting

I don't feel any sense of that kind of vicarious need uh you know I want him I think the best I can do. My son's in a school where he's one of only eight who pays any low-income families and that was a choice because we start to feel really different from each other. It would disappoint me if I was ineffective at modeling those things or if it didn't stick but those tend to be much more like core values than competitive ones. Competition as a cross between a necessary evil and practical aspect is the necessary evil.

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