Something I told 12 yo and 8 yo on the way home from school: You can put your energy into being good at stuff or seeming cool, but not both. Any energy that goes into seeming cool comes out of being good.
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And did they believe that?
I think it's in the (quite large) category of things they know are true, but don't want to acknowledge. It's sufficient for me to plant the seeds of stuff they'll realize later.
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There will be no results W/O nurturing those seeds
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If we are here, then they are already growing
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At what age do they start to register (know that it's true) these learnings?
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Some of the learnings from the books I read as a kid only clicked in 2020.
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I often think back to those seeds, and thank God they were planted.
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