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Adolescence, not the first three years of life, is the period that matters most for how a brain turns out.
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Considerations of what makes for a flourishing life matter more, in judging how teenagers should spend their time, than the psychological studies used to debate it.
Holds
A young person should worry about building a rounded intellectual inner life rather than about their career, because they will spend their whole life inside their own head.
Holds
Parenting has less influence on how children turn out than most parents assume.
Holds
Taste and judgment will be the most valuable skills over the next decade, and teenagers should spend their time now cultivating taste.
Holds
The human brain will remain valuable in how people care for and relate to one another.
Holds
A liberal divorce law is wise
Last stated c. 1898
Holds
A partner's difficult trait becomes tolerable only if their good qualities outweigh it and you don't feel alone dealing with its effects.
Holds
A person with a spouse and children has given hostages to fortune, since they hinder great enterprises
Last stated c. 1597–1625
Holds
A free person thinks about death least of all; their wisdom is a meditation on life, not death
Last stated c. 1661–1675
Holds
A good life is forged from the very things that make it hard, since joy and pain in relationships come together.
Holds
A good life rests on things that demand skill and effort from you, not on goods that arrive requiring none.
Holds
A finite world can support only a finite population, so population growth must eventually reach zero
Holds
A mass death does not by itself produce a boom afterwards: expecting a pandemic to renew an economy on its own misreads what followed the Black Death.
Holds
A model fitted only to trends in its own outcome cannot forecast anything, because it contains no variable anyone could change.
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