Your Turn: How to Be an Adult | Julie Lythcott-Haims

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🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

By loading kids with high expectations and micromanaging their lives at every turn, parents aren't actually helping. At least, that's how Julie Lythcott-Haims sees it. With passion and wry humor, the former Dean of Freshmen at Stanford makes the case for parents to stop defining their children's success via grades and test scores. Instead, she says, they should focus on providing the oldest idea of all: unconditional love. After the talk, stick around for a discussion on how you can be a grown-up, too, as Elise and Julie discuss her new book, "Your Turn: How to Be an Adult." This episode is part of the TED Talks Daily summer book club, a series featuring talks and interviews to inspire your next great read. And if you'd like to learn more from Julie, you can enroll in her new TED Course, which builds off the ideas from her book. Whether you're just launching your adult life or finally giving yourself permission to question what adulthood even is, you'll learn practical strategies to build a future that fits you. Enroll at tedtalks.social/bestself.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:07.2	Today as part of the Ted Talks Daily Book Club, we have author Julie Liffcott Hames.
0:12.5	Her 2016 archive talk is all about how to raise more self-sufficient kids.
0:16.9	But stick around after, where I talk with Julie about why today's adolescence and adulthood
0:21.5	is so challenging, and the lessons she offers in her newest book, Your Turn, How to Be an
0:26.9	Adult.
0:27.9	With summer ending soon and this feeling of normal life, coming back kind of, it seems
0:32.6	like fitting advice right now.
0:34.8	And if you want to get even more wisdom from Julie, she's doing a new online course
0:37.9	for Ted based on her own experiences and her new book.
0:41.6	Whether you're just launching your adult life or just questioning what you assume to
0:45.2	be true about adulthood, I feel called out there.
0:48.7	You'll learn practical tips on building a future that fits you.
0:52.2	And roll in her Ted course today by visiting courses.ted.com.
0:57.8	Now onto Julie's talk.
1:26.0	Check out Body Stuff on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
1:32.7	Support for Ted Talks Daily comes from AirBnB.
1:35.3	Okay, every time you stay at an AirBnB, do you ever wonder, could my place at home actually
1:41.4	be an AirBnB, could I rent it out?
1:44.0	And if I could, what would it earn?
1:46.1	I think about this sometimes, myself.
1:48.6	So I was pretty surprised to hear about Lucy and Worcestershire, who realized she could
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