Well outside forces do have greater power than we do. All we can control is our own choices. But in the end we must adjust. And all those things you list are very powerful.


Well, someone in the NY Times comment section came up questioning her assertation that high pressure parents produce happier children, stating that japan has that same philosophy and According th Who, has the world's largest suicide rate in this new failed economy. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/world/07/08/10/japan-pm-targets-high-suicide-rate.
But her book isn't about failed unemployed middle aged Japanese men who didn't make it. It's about two beautiful American girls of Chinese decent who played at Carnagee hall already in their young lives. I really don't like it that she's teaching American Law when she so blatantly and publicly prefers the Chinese culture. That bothers me. But I'm not the one in locus of control.

Youth lives by personality, age lives by calculation. -- Aristotle on a calendar