About the book
Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse, who saw this generation's struggles up close as president of a Midwestern college, argues that America's young people face a coming-of-age crisis. Overprotective parents and misguided government programs, he contends, have left many ill-equipped for a competitive global economy, while rites of passage such as working with one's hands, leaving home and becoming economically self-reliant are delayed or skipped. He cites figures such as one in three Americans aged 18 to 34 living with their parents. His remedy centers on formative experiences: hard work, travel, wide reading, resisting consumerism and caring for the body. St. Martin's Press published it in 2017, and it became a New York Times best seller.
In his roundup of the best books he read in 2017, Ryan Holiday said The Gift of Failure, which he read not long after it, made a great companion to it.
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Ryan Holiday (Founder/Brass Check)
I read this book (note: The Gift of Failure) not long after reading Senator Sasse’s The Vanishing American Adult and found it to be a great companion. We forget that homework doesn’t matter, grades don’t matter—only what the process they represent matters. Children are not a reflection of their parents, they depend on their parents to raise them into adults who can be reflections of who they uniquely are.
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