Do you think the author's children are not successful? According to her Wikipedia entry, they are: CEO of YouTube, Professor of Pediatrics and researcher, and co-founder of 23andMe.
I have not read her book to tell what she defines as successful.
Google Books preview says she regards "success" as something akin to "passion". 'I think it's time we define "success" as "passion".' (p74)
She uses it in the context of a career, of a child soloist at Carnegie hall, "personal success", "all walks of life", "at Stanford" and "citizen of the world."
Looks like pretty standard upper-income white-collar class American aspirations.
I still regard it as like a diet book - there's a bunch of these things, and lots of different audiences.
Still, certainly having the money to get an M.A. at Paris-Sorbonne University, be married to a Stanford physics professor (and sometimes department chair), and to live and raise children in Palo Alto .... probably didn't hurt.
> Do you think the author's children are not successful?
I believe the definition of success should be questioned.
> standard upper-income white-collar class American aspirations
There's no particular reason to privilege this point of view. The three people I named in my first comment on this post did not meet this standard, but I'd much rather emulate their accomplishments than be the fastest rat in the race.
I have not read her book to tell what she defines as successful.
Google Books preview says she regards "success" as something akin to "passion". 'I think it's time we define "success" as "passion".' (p74)
She uses it in the context of a career, of a child soloist at Carnegie hall, "personal success", "all walks of life", "at Stanford" and "citizen of the world."
Looks like pretty standard upper-income white-collar class American aspirations.
I still regard it as like a diet book - there's a bunch of these things, and lots of different audiences.
Still, certainly having the money to get an M.A. at Paris-Sorbonne University, be married to a Stanford physics professor (and sometimes department chair), and to live and raise children in Palo Alto .... probably didn't hurt.