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#79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Are You Teaching Your Child to Be Dependent?

We are moulding our kids right now into being dependent, very dependent, and also obeying instructions. Napoleon wanted everybody to follow instructions. The main way you're rewarded is by regurgtating on tess what it was that the professor said. And you're not rewarded for thinking. In endently rewarded for following instructions. This all was instituted a hundred years ago, maybe a little more napoleonic times. We don't let our kids go anywhere by themselves an d you know, they can't take a bus by themselves. They can't do anything by themselves. It's hard to change habits.

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