Esther Wojcicki on How to Raise Successful People: Remarkable News #10

With schools closed, we've made the switch to teaching our children at home. In the words of Shonda Rhimes, producer of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, after week one of educating at home, “Teachers deserve to make a billion dollars a year. Or a week.”

I recently hosted Esther Wojcicki on my Remarkable People podcast, and she shared many great ideas that she’s learned from thirty-six years of teaching and raising her family. 

In case you don’t recognize her name, she is the “godmother of Silicon Valley” because her uber-successful daughters are Susan Wojcicki (YouTube’s CEO), Anne Wojcicki (23andMe founder and CEO), and Janet Wojcicki (UCSF doctor and researcher). 

We can all learn something from her wisdom:

• There is an optimal, NON-ZERO amount of adversity that necessary for maturation.
• Helicopter, lawnmower, and snowplow parents are doing their kids a disservice.
• Standardized testing is full of flaws.
• The key ingredients of successful growth are TRICK: trust, respect, independence, collaboration, and kindness

This newsletter cannot do her wisdom justice. If you want to learn more about parenting successful people, CLICK HERE

Stay safe and keep physically distancing,

Guy

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Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist Canva, an online graphic design tool. He’s also a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He was previously the chief evangelist of Apple and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. His books include Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life, The Art of the Start 2.0, The Art of Social Media, and fifteen others. He has a BA from Stanford and an MBA from UCLA, as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College. He and his wife, Beth, have four children.