Growing Up and Becoming Yourself
How a person is built, from the first 1,000 days to adulthood, and what you can still change.
For: parents, teachers, and anyone who wants to understand their own childhood.
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01Quick readQuiz4 min
Attachment: The Blueprint You Didn't Choose
The way you love and fight was sketched early; it can be redrawn.
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02Quick readQuiz4 min
Nature, Nurture, and You
Nature or nurture? Both, and the mix is more interesting than either.
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03Quick readQuiz4 min
How Habits Actually Form
Habits are how your past self keeps voting for you.
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04ReadQuiz5 min
The First 1,000 Days
The first 1,000 days do more lifelong work than any school year.
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05ReadQuiz5 min
How Children Think: Piaget, Vygotsky, and What Held Up
How children think, and which famous theories held up.
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06Quick readQuiz4 min
Play Is Serious Work
Play is how mammals learn; adults forgot.
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07Quick readQuiz4 min
Why Teenagers Aren't Broken
Teenagers aren't broken; their brains are under construction on purpose.
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08Quick readQuiz3 min
What Every Age Needs
What every age needs, from birth to old age.
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09Quick readInteractiveQuiz4 min
Adulthood Isn't the Finish Line
Adulthood is not the finish line; people keep developing.
the Know Yourself path picks up where this leaves off.
Know Yourself
Change that lasts: habits, discipline without self-hatred, resilience, and a life that means something.