Tyler Cowen writes a book about how he was wrong
Apparently I never wrote a review of Tyler Cowen's The Great Stagnation, which is weird bc Marginal Revolution is one of the most intellectual blogs I read and I found the book very novel. The premise is that America has eaten the low hanging fruit of cheap land and labor force expansion, so future economic growth will have to come from scientific
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That's what I was thinking right about the time I got to that paragraph.
Re: being driven. It's the king, really. No matter where or in what. I have the best demonstration among my two kids, where I see how one of them being driven beats hands down the other's innate abilities in some things. And this is at the tender age of 6. Similarly, I see in their examples how being driven lets one succeed at sports, at school, at pretty much anything.
Now if someone wrote a book about how to teach your kids to become driven. I've been searching for advice about that, but haven't found any. Heck, if someone were to tell me how to become driven myself.
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(Funny enough, the way Andy keeps talking about Thinking Fast and Slow, I keep telling myself to read the whole thing (even though he hasn't) and just can't get back into it :(
I'm currently reading How Children Succeed, which touches on many of the same issues. It's going to take me a while to get around to that review though, especially since my brother gave me a pile of baby-related books. So far it isn't prescriptive, but my ex-boss' ex-boss, a pretty smart dude, recommended it.
Julian has read a few other books on related topics: I'm sure he'll chime in shortly.
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How Children Succeed was on my preorder list (hmm, got to check. The order probably did go through). It seems to be based in a large part on the work by Angela Duckworth. She gave a lecture at my kids' former school a few years ago, and I liked the lecture a lot, but wished it gave an answer to my one fundamental question: "ok, I get it. Grit rules. How do I get my kids to be more gritty?"
Re: parenting books, one of my favorite ones is What's Going on in There? : How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
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The other one on my started-not-finished queue is Where Good Ideas Come From.
I'm halfway through How Children Succeed and there are a lot of great ideas in there, but they are organized for a good narrative, rather than as a prescription :(
What's Going On In There? sounds fascinating and somehow didn't show up on my radar. Thanks.
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I agree on the driven, but disagree on the example. It's like the problem with the tiger mother thing, sending kids off to academic classes instead of going to sleepovers in middle school: the skills that hold people back in the real world aren't whether or not they know another language or something, but whether they can understand and negotiate social situations, understand multiple people's points of view and how they differ, and recognize and plan for people's feelings.
Not that I don't spend too much bloody time on FB - but it's also one of single most important sites for my professional advancement and development.
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