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“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
“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
“The proponents of this ‘ancient commune’ theory argue that the frequent infidelities that characterise modern marriages, and the high rates of divorce, not to mention the cornucopia of psychological complexes from which both children and adults suffer, all result from forcing humans to live in nuclear families and monogamous relationships that are incompatible with our biological software.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“In other words, if you don’t act as your own therapist, and interrogate your own childhood, you won’t be the best parent you can be. A parental perspective allows you to understand the challenges your parents faced that you might not have recognized as a child. A child’s perspective is myopic, and it’s impossible for us as children to understand all the factors that influence our parents’ behavior.”
― How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results
― How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results
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