Ned Johnson
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601 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2019
last heard Sep 2024
Ned Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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then golly, you sure want a brain that's motivated to set and pursue goals that are meaningful to that person themselves.
Otherwise, we as employers or teachers or parents or whatever, we'll spend our lifetime trying to apply carrots and sticks to get kids to do what's in their own best interest rather than wanting them to do what's in their own best interest.
Well, this is Ned.
A couple of thoughts jumped to mind for me.
One is that we work on the assumption that kids want to be successful.
They have brains in their heads and they want their lives to work out.
The challenge is they may just not do it on the time scale that we want because we know that there's such unevenness in how brains develop.
And the other question to point out being risky, it's like, well, what's risky?
That your kid isn't getting terrific grades in fourth grade or seventh grade or 10th grade or 12th grade or doesn't go to the most selected college versus...
having a brain that's wired to want to do things for himself.
Right.
And to Bill's point, an accurate model of how the world really works.
I mean, because both of us have seen so many of this kid I'm working with right now, who his mom has a tutor coming to their house four days a week, three hours a night.
And I sort of gobsmacked and I said, well, and she said, well, if the tutor doesn't show up, he won't do any work at all.
And I said, with all due respect, it looks like he isn't doing any work at all, even with the tutor, because he's got a 2.8 GPA.
And the question is whether he's getting that grade point average with support or perhaps in spite of the tutor.
And there's a story in the book.
My son, he's not been tested, but I'm sure he would come out, you know, is inattentive, not hyperactive, but, you know, ADD.
And in the middle of middle school, he was working on some assignment.
My wife is helping.
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