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“When parents don’t take responsibility for their own unfinished business, they miss an opportunity not only to become better parents but also to continue their own development.”
― How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results
― How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results
“But why even get married in the first place? If you’re so against it?” “Because we have two competing impulses alive within us: the need for novelty and the need for stability. It’s this constant push-pull. When I have too many hookups, I crave stability. When I have too many nights chilling on the couch, I crave novelty. The key is to celebrate the contradiction.”
― Wellness
― Wellness
“What I realized, through a lot of conscious effort, is that parenting gives us perhaps the most profound opportunity to grow as human beings.”
― How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results
― How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results
“But Burlington’s big post–World War II turning point came with the arrival in the late 1950s of what eventually turned out to be one of IBM’s major semiconductor works, in the suburb of Essex Junction, just east of Burlington. At its peak, the IBM factory employed some eight thousand engineers and technical workers. Its staff fell to about three thousand (and IBM has sold the works to another company, a Silicon Valley spin-off called GlobalFoundries). But its influence on Burlington remains profound.”
― Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
― Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
“I want to update it. I want to beta test new models. I want to break it and start all over. The way I think of it is: marriage is just a technology that was never quite future-proof. Like, it may have been a good tool in Victorian England or whatever. But for us? Now? Not so much. We have these twenty-first-century relationships running eighteenth-century software. So it’s glitchy and it crashes all the time. Typically with any technology we try to innovate and update and improve it, but with marriage we seem to refuse all progress. We’ve convinced ourselves that, actually, we like all those glitches.”
― Wellness
― Wellness
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