Dr. Dan Peters
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664 appearances
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first heard Jul 2018
last heard Mar 2020
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while also trying to say the right thing.
It's hard to have that combination sometimes.
Yes, yes.
That's a great question.
Let me say one thing first about the passion thing, because I love what Dr. Sylvia Rim, who's many people know as a veteran psychologist in the world of gifted, and I was at a conference with her and she gave a keynote about I can't had a catchy title, but it was really bashing passion.
And that basically we have this over focus on passion these days.
And I do have parents in my office who are worried that at age 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, their kids have not identified their passion yet, like worried.
And what she basically said is she didn't find her passion until she was 40.
And if she was told that if she didn't have a passion, her future was not going to be bright, it would have changed the course of her life.
And she said, we have to teach kids to engage children.
to step up to their responsibilities.
And if and when we find our passion, it's awesome.
But to lead with that as a primary goal is often misguided.
So I just want to say that's a really interesting way of thinking about it because I too want our kids to find what they really care about and what they're really interested in.
But I think passion with a capital P is not everyone gets there and they certainly don't get there before 18.
So in thinking about this question, it's a really good question, is we want our kids to be engaged in life.
And again, I'm going back to the challenge success research out of Stanford.
Like the number one, like we want well-being, health and well-being and engagement.
And their data shows that the number one factor of child well-being is school engagement.
And that doesn't mean have to be a brick and mortar school, like just engaged in learning.
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