Parenting

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Question: is parenthood so transformative because it reliably evokes a true and deep awe? An awe that may have been slumbering for years/decades, or only ever emerged momentarily since childhood.

Reading Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia… and an essay explores a child’s experience of fear (in contrast to the word-mitigated fear of adults).

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Reading Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia… and an essay explores a child’s experience of fear (in contrast to the word-mitigated fear of adults).
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300258455/dostoyevsky-reads-hegel-in-siberia-and-bursts-into-tears

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Interesting! Does the full-humanness taper off or change in character over time as a little one grows less little? And does it cause a change in perspective or action re: the other things which definitely do not max one out?

It’s transformative because it’s a “full-human” problem: it requires active, continual use of the entire human capabilities stack.

Which makes sense: this is what we were evolved to do. Parenting maxes you out with no slack or leverage. 

Other efforts only require a sliver of our capabilities by comparison.

It unlocks the brotherhood of shared suffering

The 0-1 step change in day to day life logistics that never ends is not to be underestimated