Brené Brown
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I want my kids to know anticipatory thinking, situational awareness, temporal awareness.
I want my kids to have this complex set of skills.
Do I want them to have jobs one day where all they're worried about is shareholder value?
Really, no.
I want them to own their mind, own their intellect, own their attention, and own their focus.
I want them to read books.
I want them to understand history.
I want them to develop pattern recognition skills because these are the skills of the future.
I want them to be able to hold the tension of nuance and paradox when everything in their brain is saying, pick one, pick one, reconcile.
I'm uncomfortable.
Pick one, reconcile.
I'm uncomfortable.
That's neurobiology.
Yeah, no one's ever asked me this, which I've been grateful that no one's asked me.
So what a pain in the ass.
But because no one's going to like the answer.
Everything, like every single thing.
Yes, I love history.
Yes, I...
read academic papers all the time.