From Resonant Leadership by Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee:
Learning does not (or at least should not) stop after school. Our world requires that we constantly change and adjust to new and radically different circumstances. And, after we get married and have children, inattention to these relationships and neglecting the hard work it takes to keep them vibrant causes a lot of suffering.
We see it all the time: people become more distant rather than closer over the years of marriage, communication becomes mostly instrumental – who needs to go where, what needs to be done in the house, that sort of thing. Children do not really know their parents, and parents are too busy to understand their kids. Relationships become sadly empty as making the right career moves and achievement for achievement's sake become our primary goals.
