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The challenge with that, though, is that who knows what a good job will be in fifteen years? Our parents didn't send us to McGill and Duke to become bloggers. But one of the things you learn raising kids is that it's a lot easier to move with them than against them. If they can find something they love, your effort will go to getting them to stop doing it instead of getting them to start.
— Packy McCormick

1mo ago

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. And the worst thing you can do to a talented person is to prevent them from starting fires.

6mo ago

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

7mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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