Jonathan Mooney
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829 appearances
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first heard Jun 2021
last heard Dec 2024
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And that was my, um, personal reckoning, personal reckoning with, with neuro neurodivergence through the generation.
You know, I think that the macro biggest challenge that I face as a parent, there are a whole bunch of micro things, but the biggest one is
being cognizant of my notions of a successful life, which have been deeply informed by being not successful for a long time in my childhood and adolescence and wanting so much that
recognition to the gold stars to kind of heal and feel okay in the world.
And then even being in my own life on a treadmill of, you know, sort of hedonic treadmill, which is a term from sort of wellbeing science, you know, where we're trying to get something that we think is going to make us
better, feel better.
And it does, but it dissipates and you just keep at it.
And traditional academic success was that perceived panacea for me.
And that's important for me to be honest about.
And also to be
Empathetic about for others.
Because I get it.
I understand that if you've been shut out of X, you think X is the thing that's going to make you a valuable human being.
And so a lot of my writing has been...
a almost like sort of personal diary of wrestling with different chapters of that story.
And so like learning outside the lines, you know, written when I was at Brown as a transfer student was very much about, there were pieces of it that were critiquing the whole system, but was very much about like, how do you, how do you, how do you, how do you succeed in this system?
And, and,
And running parallel to the writing of the book, that's what I was doing.
You know, sold the book.
I was an undergraduate, took time off.
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