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Chua's book is not an advice manual, and sometimes you wonder if she is pulling your leg. An earnest advice manual written in 2005 by two Korean-American sisters (a doctor and a lawyer) is

Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers--and How You Can Too
by Soo Kim Abboud and Jane Y. Kim .

Someone recommended it on this forum. I think it has some good ideas. The sisters and their book were profiled in the following story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/fashion/sundaystyles/16TOP.html
Item: Sisters Think Parents Did O.K.
By ALEX WILLIAMS
New York Times
October 16, 2005

I can raise high achievers, too.

However, it's not worth what it costs.

Neither a doctor nor a lawyer are likely to provide good examples of how to how to actually achieve except in the narrow realm of those professions.

People become irritated with Friedman because whatever it is that he's writing will generally make you less able to deal with reality.

If his writing was helpful, he could do all the pompous name-dropping he wanted to do.

That's not his problem.

His problem is that he can't actually think.

Lost in the Meritocracy addresses that nicely, however. Maybe that should also be on the reading list.

JonLaw, Couldn't have said it better myself. Bravo.