Dawn’s Reviews > Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men > Status Update

If you tell a boy who has a generous dose of this kind of motivation to sit down, he'll stand up. Tell him to stand up he'll sit down. But he needs to know, and he needs you to know, that he is in charge of whether he stands or sits. He doesn't want you top tell him what to do. ...what distinguishes these boys from other kids is that the will to power takes precedence over other drives and perspectives.

Nietzsche's Will To Power-individuals want to be in charge of their environment.

Young men are wrestling with drives mothers don't understand. Fathers may understand, but garnets are sometimes contemptuos of the egocentricity and unreality that characterizes teens inner life.

First factor is changes in school. Second factor is video games.

Kenntnis and wissenschaft, or experiential learning and observational learning. Both are good, but traditional schooLing tends to leave out the experiential side, ie. actually touching a frog when learning about its life cycle.