Melinda Moyer On Changing The World By Raising Curious Kids
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Melinda Moyer about how the death of her family dog became an opportunity to teach her children about emotions, why feelings of powerlessness led her to write her best-selling book How To Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes, why encouraging curiosity is a fantastic way to help kids grow up with positive outlooks on life, and more.
Melinda Moyer is a journalist and author whose work focuses on parenting, science, and medicine. She is a contributing editor at Scientific American magazine and a regular contributor at The New York Times, as well as a faculty member in the Science, Health & Environmental Reporting program at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Her first book, How To Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes, was published in July 2021 and won a gold medal in the 2022 Living Now Book Awards. Melinda’s many accolades include the 2022 Excellence in Science Journalism award from The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the 2019 Bricker Award for Science Writing in Medicine, and first place prizes in the Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. Her work can be found at melindawennermoyer.com and on Twitter @lindy2350 and Instagram @melindawmoyer.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired |
| 0:12.6 | by the ancient Stoics, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength |
| 0:18.5 | and insight here in everyday life. |
| 0:21.6 | And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy, well-known |
| 0:27.5 | and obscure, fascinating, and powerful. |
| 0:30.7 | With them, we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are |
| 0:35.6 | and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives. |
| 0:40.1 | But first, we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors. |
| 0:43.4 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast. |
| 1:02.0 | I think a great goal in life is not to be rich, famous or important or accomplished, a |
| 1:06.9 | great and I think much more reachable goal is to just not be an asshole, to just not |
| 1:11.4 | be an asshole, to be a good person. |
| 1:13.7 | Now you can't control whether other people think you're an asshole or not. |
| 1:17.4 | Of course, even Mark's realist, beginning in meditation, talks about how even the greatest |
| 1:21.7 | people, if someone who wishes they were dead, they want their apartment or their glad to |
| 1:27.4 | get them out of the way or whatever it is, but you can control whether you deserve that |
| 1:33.4 | epithet or not, right? |
| 1:35.5 | My guest today, Melinda Winner-Moyer, is a journalist who covers parenting and science |
| 1:41.3 | and medicine. |
| 1:42.3 | She's got a master's in science and health and environmental reporting from NYU. |
| 1:46.5 | She's written for the scientific American and the New York Times, which is this great |
| 1:50.3 | parenting newsletter that I get every week. |
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