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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (191408)	6/13/2012 12:44:10 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543857

<<I enjoy hard work. So that is a difference between us. Hard work does not derange you. Instead it can give you a feeling of satisfaction. I play hard, and I work hard. And I enjoy it all. >> You may enjoy hard work, but others may not. I enjoy hard living and learning and having lots of fun. If I was rich I would be lying on the beach in Bora Bora reading Steven Pinker and a zillion other books, when not snorkling. I would also enjoy teaching. What I was getting at is that I believe consistency and focus will get you to the same place as the Tiger mom (which I think is a terrible thing to do to a child) and it is safer. The hippie mom style is better-lol. My older daugther who went to UC Berkely and Loyola law did her homework watching soap operas, but it was always done on time. My other daughter who went to the U of Oregon had a different style, she would often write her papers at midnight and at the last minute-lol. I let them each find their own style. But both were self motivated and never worked too hard. They were more consistent and simply got the work done. Both kids were always in honors classes and graduated with honors and my younger daughter got the new A+'s which they started dishing out at the end of her BS. She is now going back to get another degree in computer science and work toward her PHD in environmental science. This was soly her idea based on what she felt she needed. She just finished taking a programming class at the local community college. And both kids never stop learning. Both are readers. My younger daughter just finished read Walter Issacson's book on Einstein. But I never even once told them to do their homework. My younger daughter phones me every friday night where we have a very deep conversation. She is starting to pass me up intellectually and I love it. The Japanese are the most educated people on earth, but they push their kids too much and so also have one of the highest suicide rates. Max Weber worked as hard as any intellectual in history and spent five years sitting in a chair in a catatonic state staring out a window. Avoiding insanity is a tricky business. I have seen so much of it and it was almost always caused by too much stress. The trick to avoiding insanity is to live a relaxed life with lots of rest and play. One can get the work done and still live a relaxed life. I have also seen way too many driven people with compulsive personalities. That is to be avoided IMO.