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So following the agile model, we ask three questions: What worked well in our family this week, what didn't work well, and what will we agree to work on in the week ahead?

We have to break parents out of this straitjacket that the only ideas we can try at home are ones that come from shrinks or self-help gurus or other family experts.

Let's take the biggest issue of all: family dinner.

Everybody knows that having family dinner with your children is good for the kids.

I met a celebrity chef in New Orleans who said, "No problem, I'll just time-shift family dinner.

I'm not home, can't make family dinner?

We'll have family breakfast.

It turns out there's only 10 minutes of productive time in any family meal.

So time-shift family dinner.

There's a reason that few systems have been more waterfall over time than the family.

Just yesterday, we were having our family meeting, and we had voted to work on overreacting.

So he led us through the process of creating a family mission statement.

We did the family equivalent of a corporate retreat.

This family mission statement is a great way to identify what it is that you do right.

The family mission statement was on the wall, and my wife said, "So, anything up there seem to apply?"

Do you know anybody in your family who had a difficult situation, an illness, and they overcame it?

Spend time retelling the story of your family's positive moments and how you overcame the negative ones.

Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

When Leo Tolstoy was five years old, his brother Nikolay came to him and said he had engraved the secret to universal happiness on a little green stick, which he had hidden in a ravine on the family's estate in Russia.

What's the secret to a happy family?

We were able to tell that she belonged to the human family tree because the legs, the foot, and some features clearly showed that she walked upright, and upright walking is a hallmark in humanity.

So she belongs to our family tree, but within that, of course, you do detailed analysis, and we know now that she belongs to the Lucy species, known as Australopithecus afarensis.

And that's very characteristic of humans and it's called childhood, which is this extended dependence of human children on their family or parents.

My crew once pulled our van up to a really poor Miami neighborhood and we found out that our couchsurfing host for the night was an 18-year-old girl, still living at home, and her family were all undocumented immigrants from Honduras.

And that night, her whole family took the couches and she slept together with her mom so that we could take their beds.

I began helping a family in the Karoo Desert in the 1970s turn the desert that you see on the right there back to grassland, and thankfully, now their grandchildren are on the land with hope for the future.

And look at the amazing change in this one, where that gully has completely healed using nothing but livestock mimicking nature, and once more, we have the third generation of that family on that land with their flag still flying.

He was a broken branch grafted onto a different family tree, adopted, not because his parents opted for a different destiny.

And we think of this as our system of ethics, but what we don't realize is that this system has a powerful side effect, which is: It gives a really stark, mutually exclusive choice between doing very well for yourself and your family or doing good for the world, to the brightest minds coming out of our best universities, and sends tens of thousands of people who could make a huge difference in the nonprofit sector, marching every year directly into the for-profit sector because they're not willing to make that kind of lifelong economic sacrifice.

So raise your hand if you know someone in your immediate family or circle of friends who suffers from some form of mental illness.

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