How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results

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Fortunately, Greg overcame this and eventually became a well-known graphic artist and web designer who currently runs a successful company in Los Angeles.

Successful Daughters Esther Wojcicki on How She Raised Three Successful Daughters

Her educational background is in Electrical Engineering (MS, Stanford University) and Business Management (MBA, Harvard University).Learning more about yourself and challenging yourself to try new things can provide opportunities for self-discovery. The oldest of three children of two Russian Jewish immigrants, Wojcicki grew up in a family where religious beliefs and practices decided every aspect of upbringing. What I wanted more than anything was to make them first into independent children and then into empowered, independent adults. One parent said the most important quality to teach a kid is humility because when you think you’re good enough, you stop trying to be better and there’s much less of an impulse to continue striving. Psychologists have long attempted to link specific traits or personality characteristics to success in life and work.

How to Raise Successful People

Another example of collaborative parenting would be to avoid using phrases like “because I said so”. Reward progress: Recognize your successes along the way and allow yourself to enjoy your accomplishments. That’s what I felt the moment Susan was born, and later on when we welcomed our other two daughters, Janet and Anne. And in Esther Wojcicki’s mind, it is also the simple (and, thanks to her, easy-to-remember) recipe for good parenting. Avoid bottling up or repressing your feelings, but look for healthy and appropriate ways of dealing with what you are feeling.

It doesn’t have to be a debate, if they keep asking why they should do it simply reply “I already told you why”, but by giving them reasoning for commands, you teach them not to ever do anything without question. How to Raise Successful People should really be titled How to Raise Good People because, throughout the book, that seems like Esther’s main objective. We don’t need to tell you that neglectful parenting is the worst kind, but we feel that we do need to remind you that permissive parenting allows children too much. But we found the roles and those same parental qualities were coming out, even for families of very different backgrounds along lines of race and class and national origin. The role of the revealer, for example, would not be featured when talking about authoritative parenting.