Podcast
The Daily Stoic
It explores the concept of raising children who are grounded, generous, and smart about money, focusing on values rather than solely on finances. The author struggled to find a single word to encapsulate this ideal, eventually deciding on the book's title.
I just love the title of The Opposite of Spoiled because it perfectly captures how we want to be as people and what we want our kids to be like.
— Episode: Author Ron Lieber on Money and Values
Episode: Author Ron Lieber on Money and Values
It explores the concept of raising children who are grounded, generous, and smart about money, focusing on values rather than solely on finances. The author struggled to find a single word to encapsulate this ideal, eventually deciding on the book's title.
I just love the title of The Opposite of Spoiled because it perfectly captures how we want to be as people and what we want our kids to be like.
But there's really not a word that communicates what it is that you're talking about.
And all those things added up to something, right? But it's true that there was no word whatsoever. And so I had to write a book to try to define it.
It's like you had to write a book that was probably what? 70, 80 thousand words to really capture what ideally could have been captured in a single word.