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Esther Wojcicki

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“Well, thank you for inviting me and thank you to all your listeners for listening. And I wish everybody a very happy 2020.”
2020-03-17 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then in the business world, there's a good book written by a friend of mine, Jonathan Rosenberg, and also Eric Schmidt, and it's called The Trillion Dollar Coach. about Bill Campbell Bill Campbell was this amazing human being, this coach, who coached a lot of Silicon Valley CEOs. And actually his message is the same as my trick method. It's written from a corporate perspective. It's the same thing trusting your employees, respecting them, giving them independence, promoting collaboration, and then treating them with kindness. He even said loving them. So I recommend that book too.”
2020-03-17 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, there are some books there's one that just came out now in addition to my book which I recommend. It's called Failure to Launch. And it talks about some of the same things I'm talking about and the failure to launch are the kids that fail to launch. And it's because of the parenting problems that we're having today. So that's one book. There's another one written by a colleague of mine at Harvard called Dark Horse and talks about The kids who are the non conformists. and the ones that the parents are pulling their hair out my God he's going to end up doing nothing you know it talks about how those kids are the ones that really change the world I think that that's that's a book that I recommend”
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“I have a whole list of these books, but I'm sorry I don't have this list right now, but I would be happy to send you this list.”
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“That's right. Yeah, they loved the assignment. And it was. I mean the discussions in class were incredible. So I just think that a lot of critical thinking can be taught in schools if it's not just regurgitation, if it's analysis and thinking about whatever it was that the author talked about and trying to understand how it could have impacted. World today”
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“And most teachers just have you write about what happened in the book and what the author's message was and the thesis and all that, I said they had to go back through that book and find parts of the book that were happening in the world today. and then talk about how that type of thinking is impacting the policies we make. That was a critical thinking exercise.”
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“to read books and then talk about the characters and the decisions that they made and whether those decisions were good decisions or bad decisions. Just reading the book by yourself, I mean you can do, you know, it's helpful, but the learning comes about in the discussion and the speaking and talking about things that happened. And going back, for example, through history and looking at some of the things that happened historically and how they impact the world today. I mean, one of the most impactful assignments that I gave to my students was nineteen eighty four, the book they had to read the book.”
2020-03-17 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So you can read about critical thinking. You can read Novels, stories about things, and then try to analyze what went wrong and whatever it was that that character was doing, that helps build critical thinking. Math helps build critical thinking also, but in fact the thing that helps critical thinking development the best is doing it. And that's where the whole journalism thing comes in because you have to think critically every day when you are writing stories and analyzing data and figuring out who said what and does it make sense and are they lying and are they telling the truth? That is how you develop critical thinking by actually doing it. I just recommend that an easy way for parents”
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“And that's what we're doing. We're just terrified of making mistakes when it's not the older generation. It's the newer, younger generation. They need to be, it's okay to believe in yourself.”
2020-03-17 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the number one way to change that first of all discuss it, have a team discussion about how this is part of the culture today and how it is okay to take a risk and to fail. And I think right now people are terrified of failing. And as long as they're terrified of making a mistake and failing, never going to change us. So there has to be, it has to be One of those off-site days, but it can't just be one day. It has to be embedded in the culture where you're meeting once a week and talking about some of the things that you tried that didn't work out and it's okay and that you're being celebrated for trying and for doing things that might not have worked out. I mean, Einstein says we cannot fix mistakes with the same thinking that we use to create those mistakes.”
2020-03-17 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“more dependent, more afraid to make a mistake, more they always have to check with somebody, and I see it in the college graduates, and I see it when these people are actually in the real world as employees, they always are afraid to make mistake. They're always looking for reassurance. Yes, this is right. Keep doing it this way. Yes. The fear of failure is much greater now than it was before.”
2020-03-17 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was just with a group of my friends who brought their children up in the seventies in the eighties, and we all talked about how different it is today. Back in the seventies and eighties we trusted our kids. You could walk down the street, you could go to the store by yourself. My children rode their bikes to the swimming tennis club by themselves when they were seven or eight years old. They went swimming They were there swimming by themselves. There was a lifeguard at the pool, of course. But, you know, they were eight years old and I didn't worry. And there was no phone, so there was no way for me to call them and say you have to come home right now. So there was a lot more trust and kids were growing up with a lot more independence. That is the biggest difference between what was happening in the seventies, eighties, nineties, and today.”
2020-03-17 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think an elementary school in kindergarten in first grade and second grade probably it does. You can have large classes if you have more AIDS. So in kindergarten you might need to have a ratio of one to ten, you know, first grade, second grade, maybe one to ten. As they get older, they Work in groups, so you can raise the ratio maybe one to fifteen, but I really think as they like in my classes, you know, I can have one to seventy. Well, why do I have that? Because the kids are working in teams. They're independent learners. They don't need as much control. But yes, elementary schools do need a lower better ratio, lower ratio, because otherwise it's harder to teach those kids.”
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“So, private schools, a lot of the private schools are following my trick philosophy. As a matter of fact, most of them are. They trust the kids, respect them, give them a lot of independence, allow them to collaborate and treat them with kindness. And the reason they do that is if they don't, the parents don't pay. They take their kid out. And so I think that the private schools are doing a great job. Public schools need to do the same thing. They need to, I mean ninety five percent of American kids are in public school. We need all kids to be treated with trust and respect and given a lot of independence, you know, allowed to collaborate with each other and treated with kindness all the time. And it will make a huge difference as they grow up and become members of a democratic society.”
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“Definitely, it's something that we as a country should adopt a policy where people need to be treated with dignity and respect, no matter where they're coming from, and especially all those poor children I mean, I don't think we want to get into that here.”
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“I'm sorry to say, I don't want to get political here, but it seems to be promoted by what's going on in Washington, D.C. And this has to change. If it gets worse, I can imagine, I mean, it can get worse. You know, you keep thinking it can't get worse, but every year it gets worse. So we need to appreciate all the diversity in the world and diversity, especially here in the United States. We're a country of immigrants every single person in this country, their ancestors were immigrants. Everyone not to treat the refugees and these immigrants with dignity and respect is just terrible every day, I feel it's so sad, and I do whatever I can to help, but you're fighting. the government on this”
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“Then what we're doing today in America? I mean we're so separate it's really it's frightening and there are stories in the paper about how to cope with Thanksgiving dinner when you can't talk to your relatives. This is really terrible situation.”
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“You know, the Buddhist, every single person, their religion at the core of it is kindness. Treat other people with kindness and respect, and somehow or other it gets lost because we put all these labels on it that somehow we make it seem like they're really different. But they're not different. Our bodies are all the same. I mean, we don't operate on different ethnicities differently. We all have a heart. We all have lungs. We all have skin. And so we all need to take care of each other and appreciate each other. And just like what you were saying, you know, you come up and start talking to somebody from, you know, different group and they think you're kind of weird. I think we need to emphasize more how we are alike, more togetherness.”
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“either black or Hispanic or both or something like that. And so the flight of the white privileged is to private schools. So it doesn't impact the private schools. This decision, Supreme Court decision, did not impact the private schools. And so a lot of kids don't have this opportunity to know other people from other ethnicities, just like you said earlier. And, you know, if you're first meeting somebody from another ethnic group when you're 20, it's not like growing up with them. And it's better for kids to grow up with different ethnicities, different cultures, and to know that we're basically all the same. I mean, if you look at all the different religions, I mean Muslim and the Catholics and the Jews.”
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“So the Supreme Court decision, which enforced integration of the schools so that the busing came out of that, where your neighborhood school was no longer your neighborhood school, your neighborhood school was a school where people were integrated. They were bused in from different areas of the city. So the neighborhood school became a melting pot. And that was an attempt to bring kids together so that they would understand each other's culture so that they would understand that if your skin is black or if your skin is white or whatever color your skin is, whatever your ethnicity, we're basically all the same. And we can make friends with all these people. And so that works to some degree. But as we can see, inner city schools, they're all usually one ethnicity.”
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“We'd need to do more of that. We need to do that in the schools, so you know Brown versus the Board of Education where we try to integrate the schools. That didn't work. It worked a little bit.”
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“and decorate it to make it into the most beautiful tree. And that's what we did. Every year we would pick the trees without the branches or trees that were lopsided, or trees, and by accident, because I guess I didn't have empathy in the back of my mind at the time. But that's what it developed, it's like those of us that need help or that aren't perfect or that have all kinds of problems, we need to take care of them. And they too can be great with love and care and support. And so that's another one of the stories in the book.”
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“and in the movies we see these things happening, we develop the roots of empathy, but we can't really do it because the other person isn't really there. There's no real human being. I mean, I have a story in my book, which is one of the stories about empathy, and I did this actually, I guess it was just my personality, when we went out to buy a Christmas tree every year we would buy Christmas trees. We didn't cut them down, some years we did, but most of the years we went to a lot to pick a Christmas tree. And I would always say to the kids Why don't we pick one of the trees that doesn't look as good as all the rest? Let's pick a tree that no one”
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“Won't you ruin empathy by not having an opportunity to interact with other people? I mean, when you interact with other people and you see how they feel and you see their emotions, and then you can put yourself in their shoes, that builds empathy. And one of the things that I try to build into all my children and all my students is empathy, empathy for those of us who don't have everything that they need, empathy for people who have bad luck or get a disease or don't have enough money to pay for things that they want. I mean, if we don't have real world interactions with people, we cannot develop that kind of empathy because on your computer and on your phone.”
2020-03-17 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And you know, you do things together. And so I think it's important for kids to realize that the world is not all on the phone and not all on your computer. It's face to face. That's how you learn empathy. That's how you have relationships. Nobody wants to have their best friend be a robot, and so we need to remember that.”
2020-03-17 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Susan went to India for a year after college, and I didn't have any communication with her. It was just I used to get those air mail air letters. They were blue, and I just would wait for a letter. And that was how I communicated, so I know why we all want our phone because it improves communication a thousand percent. And it helps you navigate the world. And so I understand our dependence on it. It does facilitate a lot, but I think there are other things that we need to appreciate like nature and, you know, exercise and interacting with our friends. I mean, without relationships, we have nothing. You know, relationships are everything. And it's not just relationships on your phone. It's relationships where you actually see the person.”
2020-03-17 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I couldn't contact anybody. I ended up finally having this absolutely wonderful young man who stayed around and helped me who had a phone because I couldn't make appointments with people I couldn't find people. I couldn't see what was going on in the world. There were a lot of things that were happening. I mean, I were no maps. I didn't have a map. I couldn't get it. You know, everything's on your phone. So we all need these phones. All you have to do is without your phone for a few days and you'll realize, my God, we're so dependent on these phones. And it made me think back to the nineteen seventies when my children were born and my husband was traveling, I had no idea where he was. I would wait for that one phone call at night to find out like where he was and how he was. And then when my daughter, when Susan was traveling”
2020-03-17 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think, for example, you can say you can play on your phone for a fixed period of time, an hour or whatever, but then the following hour I would like you to, you know, be with your friends, call up a friend and play games that don't involve any kind of electronics. I think what you're wanting to do is to give kids an opportunity to do something that is totally different, but using the lure or the attraction of an electronic device to get them to do that. And I think electronics, I mean, we're all addicted to electronics. I mean, I was just in Beijing last month, and I did not have a phone with me, and I didn't have my computer either for a variety of reasons. And I can tell you I felt lost.”
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“ninety nine percent of them have had very pretty much terrible childhoods where they were treated very badly. And so I'd like to prevent this from happening by treating all kids with trust and respect, with my trick philosophy. It turns out really happy good people.”
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“to be quite as inappropriate in many ways as it turned out to be because I think the idea was that human beings are basically good and so they're going to try to do things that are going to help the world and I still believe that I just think there's a few you know bad situations bad people that are doing things that create a lot of problems and those are the ones that we have to to regulate but I would say 90% of human beings are good and it's just the ten percent that are creating a lot of problems and a lot of noise and a lot of violence And I think it starts in childhood, by the way. So if we can change the way we parent, if you look at all those people that are, you know, these people that have had these mass shootings or terrible things that have happened, and you look back at their childhoods,”
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“We do not sanction Violet video games, and I won't name them because there's a lot of them and I'm sure you all know about them. But we do not let our kids play with those games. There's a lot of VR out there these days that is pretty it's fun and it's harmless and it teaches a lot of physical activity. I think there's alternatives and the parents should look for alternatives and as I said common sense media has a lot of recommendations on that and then YouTube is doing its absolute best to make sure that the videos are going to be responsible and curated and careful. They're actually even in some cases having a lot of humans review those videos. I don't think anybody thought that the world was going”
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“So how do we regulate it for our kids? I think first of all when they're small there's YouTube kids that you can you know instruct your kids to use that and then there's also YouTube learning but then there's also things you know you have to teach your kids what is appropriate and what is not appropriate and I think that it's the same thing of letting your kids go to a movie that is full of violence or playing a video game like that there's so many violent video games”
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“Yeah, well, so one of my daughters, as we all know, is the CEO of YouTube, and her goal really is responsibility and making sure that videos there are really responsible. Anyway, I won't talk for her. You know, you could go online and see what she says. But she has five kids and she wants her kids to be able to use YouTube, of course. There are a lot of great things on YouTube. As a matter of fact, everybody uses YouTube for I just used it. the other day to learn how to change my furnace heater. I mean I could have paid a hundred bucks or I just went on YouTube and figured it out. And so YouTube is actually gets a billion education hits per day.”
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“There was no regulating, no implementing, no forcing them to do this or that. None of that. They just didn't do it. And at 9 p.m., they got on their phone and they, I don't know, who they were texting since they were all there. But yeah, it worked really well. So this has happened also in other family situations where all the kids agreed no phones at dinner. But that also, it's interesting to listen to this because the kids will like Hey Mom, you have to get on. Because the people's Of the bossy or the parents, like no, no problems at all. You know, they're very sensible if you give them the reasons why. I think that we don't give We don't give them the opportunity. And now we could.”
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“Family we almost fainted because we never would have made it that harsh, you know, and so that was it they were done. They didn't take the phones out of the room at all.”
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“So there's like no way you can get that phone away from that kid. So my suggestion was like, hey, why don't we let the kids come up with a plan? Why don't we let them think about, you know, here we are in Napa, there's so much to do, you know, hiking and swimming and tennis and whatever. Why don't you guys come up with a plan on how to use your phone? So we put them all around a table, come sit down, and you come up with a plan and tell us the best way that you think phones should be used. Should you be carrying the phone with you? God, you might jump in a pool with your phone. That'll be the end of your phone. We all sat down, came up with a plan. It took them about an hour. They're all fighting about it and so forth, and then pretty soon one of them comes like we made a decision about phone usage, how we can use a phone. It's like fine, let's see what you say. And so we're all sitting there.”
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“five. When kids are using devices, again I suggest that it be collaborative. They need to understand why it's not a good idea to use it as much as they would like to use it. And so if it's collaborative, then it's easier to implement. So I'll tell you what happened in Napa. So we took a family trip to Napa and stayed in a very fancy hotel. And there were like eight grandchildren at that point, I think, all running around. We noticed that a lot of them were just sitting around the pool on their phone. It's like, oh my God, you're on your phone. And here we are in Napa. And there's so many things to do and you're on your phone. So some of my children is like, let's confiscate those phones. Go grab the phone. who runs faster the kid.”
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“letters, colors, the alphabet, even how to speak another language. And so that's one thing that you can do. And when you set that up, what I'd like to suggest is that you set it up collaboratively so the child gets to pick some of the videos that they want to watch, and then you pick some of the videos that they should watch. So it's a collaborative effort. You're setting up collaboration early on. And one of the sites that I recommend to help you select apps and themes is called Common Sense Media. They review a lot of these. Not a lot, all the apps and the movies, and things electronic and give you an opportunity to select what you might think would be good.”
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“So I think one of the biggest battles happening today is that it's the phone battle, the electronic use battle. So the kid, first of all, the kids want to use electronic devices too early. One thing that I recommend is don't give your child a phone until at least they're five years old. Five years old or older because what's happening is when they're zero to five and you're training them that whenever they're bored they're going to be able to use an electronic device. What are you training them to do? Where's their creativity? Where are they learning interactions skills? What they're learning to do is use a phone. So don't use phones to entertain small children. So after the age of five, there's a lot of programs that kids can use that will”
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“Daughter's house is beginning to look like a store. You know, you can't keep doing that. You have to check with your child and see what it is that they really, they're the leaders, what it is that they would like to do. And how can you help support their goals?”
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“You know, oh my God, you're letting him go out without a jacket. You know, the kid's freezing out there. Or what? They're playing computer games. They shouldn't be playing any games. When I grew up, we didn't have computers. Those kinds of things create a lot of friction between the parents and the grandparents. So I think the grandparents with all the love that they're trying to bestow sometimes can be a little too controlling. And I mean, that's one of the things that you think all grandparents need to learn. I had to learn that as well too because when my first grandchild was there, I would arrive every day with a whole arm load of presents. You know, I was so excited. You know, I was buying gifts and toys and this and that. And it's like, you know, pretty soon I don't.”
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“So I think grandparents can be very supportive. They can help the parents. Parents need help, you know, in babysitting and things like that. And I think they can play the role of being supportive. But in that supportive role, that means that they are not in control and dictating what the parents should be doing. Because I think one of the pain points, pressure points, is when grandparents try to tell the parents that they're doing something wrong with the kids.”
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“English and there was no interaction between the subject matters. It was like there were all silos where you learned those things but you didn't learn how they interrelated. That's one of the beauties of journalism in order to be a journalist you have to use all the subjects. It's an integration of the whole curriculum. You can't do a math survey. You can't do a statistical analysis without knowing how to do it.”
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“How are you rewarded? The main way you're rewarded is by regurgitating on tests what it was that the professor said. And you're not rewarded for thinking independently, rewarded for following instructions. And this all was instituted a hundred years ago, maybe a little more. Napoleonic times. Napoleon wanted everybody to follow instructions. He wanted a standardized education for everybody, and the same was true in Germany and Bismarck, and then in eighteen ninety eight, the Committee of Ten here in the United States, they implemented the same ideas. Everybody had a standardized education. The subject matters were defined. You're studying biology, you're studying history, you're studying.”
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“That's right, we wonder about like why are they completely dependent at what age are they considered to be okay? Well, they say eighteen, but you know, if you have the first eighteen years of your life where you've been taught to be dependent, well, what do you think is going to happen on your eighteenth birthday? You think all of a sudden independence? No. Habits are very hard to change. And the way you mold the child is the way that they're going to be as an adult. It's very hard to change habits. And that's one of the big problems that we are molding our kids right now into being dependent, very dependent, and also obeying instructions. Even in the colleges.”
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“In the way that the laws are written, and I can't tell you which states are in because I haven't memorized those states, but I know there's about eight states that have laws that say you can't let your child walk alone. You can't leave your child in a store by themselves.”
2020-03-17 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think one of the problems is that it's now in many states it's law. You can't send your child alone. You can't tell you, they can't even walk the dog by themselves down the street at, I don't know, age of nine or ten, and that's considered unsafe. But I think what's happened is society as a result of all the social media reading stories about kids that were kidnapped at bus stops or kids that were, you know, kidnapped, I don't know, various places, they're all worried about kids being kidnapped or molested or something terrible happening, and so we have restricted the freedom of kids. It's everywhere. We don't let our kids go anywhere by themselves. You know, they can't take a bus by themselves. They can't do anything by themselves, and it's ingrained.”
2020-03-17 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They checked out I gave him my credit card you said I showed him how to slide it, slide it here, and this is how you sign it, sign it, and then they came they were so thrilled to be at target by themselves and make these decisions themselves. Then we went back and picked up Adam and you know he looked great I don't know what he told him to do but they did a great job. So you know it was success but everybody was like nervous like you sent them alone to all these places.”
2020-03-17 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Meantime I get a phone call from my daughter. She's like, Oh mom, so how's the shopping going at Target? I was like, Oh, I just dropped them off so they could buy their own school supplies. She's like, what? You dropped them in target by themselves I'm not kidding there was this gigantic like silence on the phone I said Susan, last time I've been the target it was pretty safe. Not only that it looks really safe all the time in any event she's like well we're gonna have to you have to go back and pick them up like right away I was like you know that their phone they can text me if there's a problem you know why don't we just worry about you know you know me picking them up anyway to make a long story short I went back to Target and of course meantime I left Adam there having his haircut by himself and I went to Target and I texted them and sure enough they were having a great time at a bath full of school supplies all looked a little crazy to me I was like you really need this yep we need it”
2020-03-17 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was like, Hey, you guys, call me, text me when you're done shopping And so off they went into Target by themselves and then my other thing that I had to do is I'd take my grandson who looked like a bushy bear to have a haircut and I said to him Well, how do you want your haircut? And I got a lot of I don't know mumble jumble of like well so what do you want them to do? Well I was like you know you can't look like this forever you're gonna have to cut this and he agreed and so I said well you know I'll drop you off and you tell him how you want your haircut and so I dropped him off at I think it was called I don't know super cuts something like that Anyway, he went in he was ten and he sat down waited and then he told us how he wanted his haircut”
2020-03-17 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT