Spot on, Andy. In my later career I took chair roles in companies and learned that I had to guide, not manage, my CEOs. Fortunately I took the guidance route with my kids. Love them to death.
So true. I recall watching an old film (Inn of The Sixth Happiness?) showing an old woman unbinding her tiny deformed feet to deter the younger women from binding their children's. Torturous. It's getting out of our emotional binds, illusion that pursuit of our own short term comforts, avoidance of pain, that frees the children to grow.
I raised a son. So, I don't anything about raising girls....except that it seems terrifying.
Little boys and grown men are not so different. We will continue to take the shortest easiest route.....until the pain of that decision is no longer worth the outcome....then we learn.
"If there is no pain,
There is no learning".
Sometimes (rarely) we can learn from someone else's mistake.
Andy- you have always been very unvarnished in your writing, podcasts, shows. Do not change. I want to see AK ....warts and all.
As a matter of fact...I probably have learned more from your stories of personal epics (but still value all lessons).
And every now and then a gem shuffles up to the surface. Keep writing Andy.
Spot on, Andy. In my later career I took chair roles in companies and learned that I had to guide, not manage, my CEOs. Fortunately I took the guidance route with my kids. Love them to death.
So true. I recall watching an old film (Inn of The Sixth Happiness?) showing an old woman unbinding her tiny deformed feet to deter the younger women from binding their children's. Torturous. It's getting out of our emotional binds, illusion that pursuit of our own short term comforts, avoidance of pain, that frees the children to grow.
I raised a son. So, I don't anything about raising girls....except that it seems terrifying.
Little boys and grown men are not so different. We will continue to take the shortest easiest route.....until the pain of that decision is no longer worth the outcome....then we learn.
"If there is no pain,
There is no learning".
Sometimes (rarely) we can learn from someone else's mistake.
Andy- you have always been very unvarnished in your writing, podcasts, shows. Do not change. I want to see AK ....warts and all.
As a matter of fact...I probably have learned more from your stories of personal epics (but still value all lessons).
Cheers