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by practical wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world.

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Make sure they know they are plenty.

Lyndon Johnson grew up poor, like log cabin almost 19th century poor. He was not like his

future running mate John F. Kennedy unaware of the economic crises of his time. He was not

sent to the best schools, yet he did all right for himself, didn't he? Except Lyndon had a chip

on his shoulder about this, especially about the fact that he

went to Southwestern Texas Teachers College and not somewhere better. George Ball, the diplomat

and advisor to Kennedy and Johnson, once observed that LBJ was hardly disadvantaged by his lack of

an Ivy League education. Rather, he said LBJ suffered from his sense of lacking that education.

That is, LBJ's insecurity about his deficiency was far worse than any actual deficit that may

have existed. Do you see how that goes? He didn't think he was good enough. He'd been made to feel

that he was deprived of something. LBJ was convinced that he had been

done an injustice by growing up as he had and unable to afford a school like Harvard or Yale.

On its face, this is absurd. He ended up being president, but he carried what we would call today

populist rage for so long, believed it for so long that it became true. Worse was the result. LBJ was

alternately too trusting and too suspicious of those who were more credentialed or smarter than he was.

He was harmed by his lack of education because he harmed himself by believing there was

something lacking. Let us learn this lesson so we can instill it in our kids.

The feeling of deficiency is far worse than any potential deprivation. Make sure they know that

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