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Teaching is too exciting (opens the original)
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“How long is a whole day and a whole night together?”Yes! I thought.That familiar little surge of excitement showed up immediately: I can teach her something.She’s interested in numbers at the moment. Doing small additions, asking how the clock works. Would she get two times twelve being twenty-four? This could actually work.So I got a pen and some paper and started drawing.“Look,” I said. “There are twelve numbers on a clock, going round in a circle…”“If you lay those out in a line, and then do
Adults don’t have it figured out (opens the original)
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As a kid, I always assumed that adults knew better than me.I was overwhelmed by the complexity of the world.I remember looking at the grain of our wooden table and thinking about the tree it came from. An entire living thing, with cells and molecules intricately interacting at scales I couldn’t even begin to picture. And now its wood was a table in our living room, with a whole new set of properties, and a history of woodworking, science, and technology behind it.Or I’d unwrap something and thin
Stop being so non-judgmental (opens the original)
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I have a minor obsession with parents offering their kids choices that aren’t really choices.I hear them everywhere.“Do you want to put your shoes on?”“No.”“Well, we have to go.”And then five minutes later to another parent: “Why does my kid always throw a tantrum just when we have to leave?”I mean, imagine being four. Someone asks what you want, you answer them, and somehow that turns out to be the wrong answer. And you’re the problem now?<sp
“Listen more” is bad advice (opens the original)
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This must sound strange coming from someone who spends an unreasonable amount of time telling his readers to listen more.But “You should listen more” is bad advice.The basic theory of good communication is actually pretty simple:Understand before you add.Don’t derail someone’s train of thought just because you want to ask something. Don’t assume you know what they mean. Don’t rush to make something happen.Simple enough.<s
Helping Alex Hormozi be a better parent (opens the original)
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I’ve been looking up to Alex Hormozi for a while now.I know almost nothing about building a business, but when I still decided to start building one, he rose pretty quickly to the top of my list of virtual mentors.I like his honesty. His humor. His directness. The way he cuts through bullshit, teaches without fluff, gives away what he knows, and clearly wants other people to succeed.And now he’s becoming a father.When I heard, I was genuinely excited. I’m extremely curious about what kind of dad
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