Daniel Coyle

Knowing how not to do it.

So the whole town gets this PhD in how not to parent, right?

And as a result, they kind of stepped away from that kind of overbearing.

And this guy really took the cake.

He would wax the skis.

He would design their training regimen.

He had them doing laps around town with backpacks full of rocks.

I mean, really wacko.

So they got this PhD level class in how not to do it.

And as a result, the town kind of, you know, was able to self-organize they had, you know, days when the school shuts and everybody goes, everybody goes skiing.

There were these relationships among the athletes that were incredibly motivating and powerful where they, they talk about one of them was about to quit and he got a postcard from one of his competitors in town said, Hey, I see you keep going.

You can do it.

And he's like, that just changed that little postcard, like kept me going.

And he ends up going to the Olympics.

And so they have something called the Norwich Daisy Chain, which is, it's kind of a pay it forward.

And the way it was described, there's a woman who wrote an entire wonderful book about Norwich.

And she talked about, it was Julia Crouch, I think, wrote the book.

But she talks about how Norwich parenting kids of other families is the same as parenting your own kids.

Like they really have an ethos where you treat every kid kind of like they were your own kid.

And that resonated too, that it's kind of that same like giving neighbor thing that you see in all these flourishing places, which sounds, you know, again, it sounds sort of pie in the sky or, you know, Pollyannish.