our family because we're more focused as a collective group on the same things,

then we're not having five things pulling us five different ways, which leads to burnout.

What's up, guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. So we had a great conversation

in Home Room about an article that Jeff references in his last book to Help With the Hustle.

This article is called How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation.

And I just wanted to talk through the family implications of what is being described here in this article by Anne Helen Peterson.

And I think she's referencing Harris. Who's that, Jeff? Do you remember

who that is? Is that somebody who wrote a book about this topic? I think so. Yeah. Okay. So it says Harris

points to practices that we now see as standard as a means of optimizing children's play, an attitude often described as

intensive parenting. Running around the neighborhood has become supervised playdates,

unstructured daycare has become preschool. Neighborhood kick the can or pickup games have

transformed into highly regulated, organized league play that spans the years. Unchanneled energy, diagnosed as hyperactivity,

became medicated and disciplined. Harris, the kids these days author, oh, that's the book,

writes, efficiency is our existential purpose, and we are a generation of finely honed tools

crafted from embryos to be

lean, mean production machines. All this optimization as children in college online culminates

in the dominant millennial condition, regardless of class or race or location, burnout.

So I think she's just saying, and then this author as well in the

article is talking about, we have basically taken every element of childhood, designed some

hyper optimized version of it. Yes. You know, and basically feel like that's our obligation. And, you know, there's a lot of

tension here when it comes for families because we really believe that families need to be more

intentional in so many areas. But parent, this kind of intensive parenting is also extremely

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