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Originally Posted by tekomino  You clean your house first, before going out to find dirt in someone else house.
Your children are reflection of your true teaching. You are a fake if your children grow up unbalanced while you teach everyone else how to be good parent, live a good/better life, achieve something etc... |
Not so sure about that. Some pretty traumatic things can happen out of the household. Though if we want to be geeky about it I'm sure parenting does have a high r^2 value and is probably the most important variable. I know for me personally though my biggest failures and successes have not been precipitated by my family. I am lucky that they've always been loving and supportive enough that I had the ability to pull myself back up on my own once I fell down, so I suppose even there you're right. Still, I hear from my family sometimes that I must've been switched at birth!
I have heard a few people stress the importance of ideas and the fact that great ones can come from any source or person. I really really like this. Experts don't possess sole dominion over great ideas, and they also can possess a lot of pretty bad ones. I mean, the title expert isn't a like a lightswitch and you don't go common to expert overnight. It's always a learning process and I don't think anyone has really got it all figured out.
In fact, I almost prefer to get advice from slightly flawed people because it avoids the whole cult of the individual that often springs up around impressive gurus. Eventually people stop being critical and just accept it because Guru X said it. If I know I have to wade through the good and bad, at least I can be assured I won't fall asleep at the switch and allow an idea through that doesn't deserve it. To be honest, it's a bit why I decided to make a post that knocked Steve a bit at the beginning of this thread. I figure the criticism is more valuable to him than the ocean of praise that he (deservedly) gets.