Why Successful Parents Sabotage Their Kids: Hindsight Bias, Path Cloning, and the Erasure of Generative Struggle
Why do elite, high-achieving parents so often raise offspring who struggle with chronic dependency, anxiety, and a lack of authentic agency? In this episode, we unpack The Fallacy of Post-Success Parenting, exposing how successful households confuse the post-success consumption of accumulated surplus with the generative engine that originally created capability.
When wealthy executives restrict screens, curate low-tech educations, or blueprint elite career tracks, they mistake the protective dividends of prior triumph for the cause of competence. This constructs a gilded greenhouse that…
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