While it’s tempting to simply impart your wisdom to your children, it’s important to resist this urge and engage them in a dialogue. Let them speak for themselves, in school or with others. Let them adopt perspectives and use their own reason instead of just fulfilling tasks or learning facts.
Month: April 2017
Early struggle should be your ultimate badge of honour During his childhood Downey had minor roles in his father’s films. He made his acting debut at the age of five, playing a sick puppy in the absurdist comedy Pound (1970), and then at seven appeared in the surrealist Greaser’s Palace (1972). At the age of ten, …
The greatest obstacle to rational decision-making, he found, was “the ego barrier,” the desire to prove oneself right and others wrong, even in the face of evidence to the contrary.
Under Dalio’s leadership, Bridgewater has adopted a management style he describes as “radical transparency.”
We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.” – Marilyn Ferguson