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Masterly Inactivity Versus Micromanaging

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

Can We Get Ice Creams?

Some critics doubted if britain could do anything in afghanistan. After all, the last time they'd tried it had ended in humiliation. The victorian pioneer of free range parenting, charlotte mason, took pains to make that point. She points out how much better it feels to give a masterly yes. If you're eating ice cream after an abject yes,. It tastes of nagging worry that you've sentivized more pestering in the future.

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