One of the chapters in my book is resilience over happiness. Don't you want your kid to be happy? You just want your kid to be happy, right? I couldn't let this small talk moment go.
“And it always, like, ruin a perfectly,”
This connects really well with this idea of building resilience long term versus short term. And I think about in the work environment, just like doing the hard thing, you will be better off versus just, like, letting things progress in the because it's hard for them to do. You think people will not wanna hear bad news. Talk about just that kind of lesson and how that might translate. I mean, one of the chapters I know in my book and kind of something that guides our whole parenting philosophy is, like, you know, just codified as resilience over happiness. And I don't know if you hear this funny, but I used to hear this all the time, and I I couldn't let myself let this, like, small talk moment go. Like, don't you want your kid to be happy? You just want your kid to be happy. Right? And it always, like, ruin a perfectly,
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Challenges the fundamental parenting assumption that happiness should be the primary goal. The personal anecdote about confronting this in conversation makes it relatable and shows real-world application of the principle.
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