Dr. Michael Kilgard

And we just make the incremental progress.

Life's a lot like that too.

Certainly parenting is a lot like that.

I think this is going to be good for the kid.

And then, no, this is not good for the kid.

I think this is going to be bad for the kid.

Oh, that turned out to be a really good learning experience.

when they're in tears and there's some big crisis.

So understanding that we don't know it all, that things are typically neither as bad as they seem or as good as they seem, and that maximizing something, that's kind of one of the key concepts I worry about a little bit.

Men maximize...

Minimizing all the bad things, maximizing all the good things assumes you know which things are bad and should be minimized, which things are good and should be maximized.

And a lot of times we come to recognize later in life, oh, many of those things that I really worked hard not to have happen.

Those are really valuable experiences because they taught me either how to interact with other people who've had those experiences or taught me some skill that I didn't know I would need to do, how to change a tire or whatever else it is you don't want.

You're tired to go flat, but then you learn how to change a tire.

Now you learn how a scissor jack works or whatever thing that later comes in handy.

So to me, it's more the diversity of experiences than the better experiences.

And I think right now we're a little bit at a time where there's enough judgment about which experiences should you be having.

I just returned from Yellowstone National Park and there's a little platform you can look down on Grand Prismatic Spring.

And there's people who are just like, you are looking at a 700 foot across hot spring on top of a super volcano with rings of different colors of thermophilic bacteria and algae.

And you go, take my picture and go.