*Spotlight* Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic—And What We Can Do About It
Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic -- And What We Can Do About It
In Never Enough, award-winning author and journalist Jennifer Breheny Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture and finds out what we must do to fight back.
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
5:30pm – 6:30pm PT
Online Event (Live)
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In the ever more competitive race to secure the best possible future, today’s students face unprecedented pressure to succeed.
Yet this drive to optimize performance has resulted in skyrocketing rates of anxiety, depression, and even self-harm. Parents, educators, and community leaders are facing the same quandary: how can we teach our kids to strive towards excellence without crushing them?
In Never Enough, bestselling author Jennifer Breheny Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture, and finds out what we must do to fight back.
Drawing on interviews with families and educators, she exposes how the pressure to perform is not a matter of parental choice, but baked in to our larger society and spurred by increasing income inequality and dwindling opportunities.
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. Wallace is a Harvard College alumna, and a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
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