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Tim Story-Raising Exceptional | The High-Achiever Psychology Series
The first thing Tim's mother said, when she sat down in my office, was that her son was lazy. She said it the way people say things they have been...
Gary Story-Raising Exceptional | The High-Achiever Psychology Series
In the early days of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg ran his engineering teams under a four-word principle that became one of the most quoted and most misunderstood ideas in the...
Raising Exceptional | The High-Achiever Psychology Series — The Primer
You have already met Tim. The 7th grader whose mother called him lazy. Who qualified for USAMO and got into MIT. Whose mother sat across from me in my office,...
Perfectionism
Raising Exceptional | The High-Achiever Psychology Series — The Macro Essay
Something has gone wrong with a generation of young people, and we have spent the
Raising Exceptional | The High-Achiever Psychology Series — The Primer
You have already met Tim.
The 7th grader whose mother called him lazy. Who
Gary Story-Raising Exceptional | The High-Achiever Psychology Series
In the early days of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg ran his engineering teams under a four-word
Tim Story-Raising Exceptional | The High-Achiever Psychology Series
The first thing Tim’s mother said, when she sat down in my office, was that
Anxiety
Raising Exceptional | The High-Achiever Psychology Series — The Parent Essay
Let me start with something I want you to hold onto through everything that follows.<br
Raising Exceptional | The High-Achiever Psychology Series — The Anxiety Primer, Part II
Part II covers the patterns that are most visible from the outside and most often
Raising Exceptional | The High-Achiever Psychology Series — The Anxiety Primer, Part I
Every high-achieving student carries something. Most parents can see it — the tension before a
Gina Story-Raising Exceptional | The High-Achiever Psychology Series
The first thing her mother mentioned was sleep.
Not the C in Calculus BC.
Motiviation
Motivation-Story-Raising Exceptional | The High-Achiever Psychology Series
There is a word that comes up in almost every conversation I have with the
Luthar
Raising Exceptional | The Luthar Series — Comp/Comp
There is a conversation I have with parents several times a year that follows a
Raising Excellence | The Luthar Series — Harvard Kid
Suniya Luthar died on February 16, 2023. She was sixty-four years old.
She had
Commentary
Commentary-Raising Exceptional | Analysis
The Harvard Crimson published a piece this week by staff writers Sebastian Connolly and Summer
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The Macro Story-Raising Exceptional | The High-Achiever Psychology Series | A Premium Story
Something has gone wrong with a generation of young people, and we have spent the better part of a decade arguing about who is responsible for fixing it.
The argument has produced very little fixing.
In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory calling youth mental health
The Primer-Raising Exceptional | The High-Achiever Psychology Series | A Premium Story
In the early days of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg ran his engineering teams under a four-word principle that became one of the most quoted and most misunderstood ideas in the history of Silicon Valley.
Move fast and break things.
The people who misunderstood it thought it was a philosophy
Gary Story-Raising Exceptional | The High-Achiever Psychology Series | A Premium Story
In the early days of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg ran his engineering teams under a four-word principle that became one of the most quoted and most misunderstood ideas in the history of Silicon Valley.
Move fast and break things.
The people who misunderstood it thought it was a philosophy
Tim Story-Raising Exceptional’s Inner Growth Program | The High-Achiever Psychology Series
She was wrong, of course. But she didn’t know that yet.
Tim sat beside her in my office, small and very still, looking at a point somewhere slightly to the left of my face. He was in 7th grade. Two months earlier, he had scored a near-perfect on the
Commentary-Raising Exceptional | Analysis
The Harvard Crimson published a piece this week by staff writers Sebastian Connolly and Summer Rose reporting student reaction to the faculty’s decision to cap A grades at 20% per course. Students warned the policy will fuel competition, narrow course selection, and disadvantage students from less-resourced backgrounds. Top Tier Admissions<br
Raising Exceptional | The Luthar Series — Comp/Comp
There is a conversation I have with parents several times a year that follows a remarkably consistent script.
A parent comes in concerned about their child’s anxiety. We talk for a while about what the anxiety looks like — the checking, the sleeplessness, the comparison with peers, the way