If You Teach Your Child Nothing, Teach Them This.
Everyday when I come online I see one new tweet, post or an article about what people say they’ll teach their kids or what they’ll make sure their kids learn.
I’ve seen people say they’ll make sure their kids learn skills like sales and marketing, copywriting, red pill and pickup artistry, coding, writing and whatnot.
I’ve seen people use terms like love, family, happiness, satisfaction etc, to describe what they’ll ensure their kids know and understand.
And of course, this is all good.
But I haven’t seen anyone talk about detachment yet.
Maybe it’s because it’s not as popular as the rest. But imagine training a child to learn how to be detached from outcomes.
And that’s because a detached person isn’t carried away so much by success they forget there are still battles ahead to be fought and won.
A detached person isn’t weighed down so much by failure or a series of failures they stop believing in themselves or fail to realize there’s always a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. And that this light is in fact hope, and this hope is a hope of success.
A detached person isn’t tied down by sunk cost fallacy – choosing to stay in a relationship, partnership, country, business or deal because of how much they’ve invested in it already whether emotionally, financially, physically or with their time and energy.
A detached person can always pack up and leave.
A detached person is willing to let go.
And that’s the beauty of detachment – from outcomes and people.
It’s the greatest form of freedom because it allows you see the forest for the trees.
It also gives you the much needed dose of clarity when everyone else is being led by their emotions.
It’s the greatest superpower.
If you teach your child nothing, teach them detachment.
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