So in a recent Instagram reel, former professor of evolutionary biology, Brett Weinstein,

you guys have probably heard of him, made the following observation to Jordan Peterson.

He said, quote, the job of the parent is to mirror the environment that the child will mature into

so that when they get there, they have the software

that is an appropriate match for it.

And a lot of mental health issues come down to a mismatch

between the software that your developmental environment produced,

meaning your upbringing, and the environment you actually live in.

End quote.

In other words, your parents properly prepared you for the future or they didn't.

That's basically what he was saying.

And you'll recall that in my last episode, I referenced the Pew study that money and career

are the single greatest goal American parents have for their adult children, four times

greater than their desire for their children to get married and have a family.

And ironically, which I failed to say in that last episode, in that same Pew study, the number one concern of today's parents, not a goal for their kids, this is a separate question.

The number one concern of today's parents is their children's mental health problems, which it should be.

It's a massive, massive problem today.

But no connection is made between their adult children's mental health issues

and the massive relationship problems that exist in this generation

as a result of that other piece of the study that showed what's most important to today's

generational since the to today's to the parents sorry of today's generation this is especially

true for women who've made it very clear, particularly on social media, how they

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