Join us for a lively, provocative conversation on how achievement culture is affecting the mental health of our kids, not to mention the rest of us, with Jennifer Breheny Wallace, author of the New York Times bestseller Never Enough, and Daniel Markovits, author of the acclaimed 2019 book The Meritocracy Trap—moderated by Next Big Idea podcast host, Rufus Griscom. Following the panel discussion, the conversation will continue at an optional VIP dinner(limited availability).
Why are teens so stressed? Can we encourage them to strive towards excellence without crushing them? How will AI and other new technologies alter the work we do? And with these changes in mind, should we be raising and educating our kids differently?
These are the questions keeping parents and educators up at night—but with a little help from Jennifer, Daniel, and a few cocktails (and mocktails), we hope to start discovering the answers.
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Jennifer Beheny Wallace
Jennifer Wallace is an award-winning journalist and author of the New York Times bestselling book Never Enough: When Achievement Pressure Becomes Toxic – and What We Can Do About It. She is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post and appears on national television to discuss her articles and relevant topics in the news.
After graduating from Harvard College, Wallace began her journalism career at CBS “60 Minutes,” where she was part of a team that won The Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism. She is a Journalism Fellow at The Center for Parent and Teen Communication at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Jennifer serves on the board of the Coalition for the Homeless in New York City, where she lives with her husband and their three children.
Daniel Markovits
Daniel Markovits is Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Private Law.
Markovits works in the philosophical foundations of private law, moral and political philosophy, and behavioral economics. He publishes in a range of disciplines, including in Science, The American Economic Review, and The Yale Law Journal.
Markovits’s new book, The Meritocracy Trap (Penguin Press), places meritocracy at the center of rising economic inequality and social and political dysfunction. The book takes up the law, economics, and politics of human capital to identify the mechanisms through which meritocracy breeds inequality and to expose the burdens that meritocratic inequality imposes on all who fall within meritocracy’s orbit.
Rufus Griscom
Rufus Griscom co-founded Nerve.com, Babble.com, and most recently the Next Big Idea Club. He has discussed consciousness, AI and virtual worlds on the Next Big Idea podcast with thinkers like Steven Pinker, Yuval Noah Harari, Paul Bloom, Steven Johnson and David Chalmers.