If you ever get a chance to talk to a man who wrote a best-selling book on focus or achievement or organization, the first thing you should ask about is his family.
Is he married? Kids? Does his wife work outside the home?
I’m listening to the audiobook of Tim Harford’s ‘The Data Detective.’ Current chapter is about missing data. He’s talking about, for instance, clinical trials that failed to include women in the subject pool, but it’s called to mind for me accounts of (and advice for) success that don’t really account for the all the domestic and business-of-life work being done for the author or the subject.
Who is taking care of the kids while you are “crushing it?”
Even Marie Kondo said, “Ha ha, just kidding” after she had kids.
(Hat tip to nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq3yphw8ga89flzd2hxkrv4wqgu3jfayj73884c583gmg0e7seu08skrjwgn (nprofile…jwgn) who made this point once about Cal Newport, and got me thinking more seriously about the subject.)
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