Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
It seems like a sound enough strategy... Still, I can't shun the idea of it being manipulation of others. It rubs me the wrong way, even though this is exactly how persuasion works. What gives? Besides. Seems to me that it can't be the whole strategy of raising a child, can it? You're raising them as X, and they'll put a lot of their faith into being X until it inevitably fails them no matter how hard they try. They can't just be arguers or students or whatever. In the words of Mark Manson, you gotta "diversify your identity".