The Partovi Effect

Stop Asking Kids “What Do You Want To Be?”—Ask This Instead (Will Change Your Parenting Forever!)

Dr. Ryan and Mrs. Madi Partovi Season 3 Episode 9

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What if the most common question we ask kids is setting them up for a lifetime of stress and missed potential? 

Discover what truly inspires confidence, connection, and purpose for the next generation.

In this powerful clip from The Partovi Effect, Dr. Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI, and Mrs. Madi Partovi challenge the way we talk to kids about their future. They reveal why focusing on contribution, not just careers, changes everything for families and communities. Plus, hear bold takes on tech, social media, and the enduring value of human creativity in a digital world.


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Mrs. Madi Partovi: so stop asking your children, what do you want to be when you grow up? Ask them, how do you want to contribute to society? 

I wanna live in community. I wanna live in a commune. 

Yeah. Like the very thing that heals like illnesses, like mental illnesses. 

Like by itself, my ideas are a co-creation, me and it's me and God, it's me and God, and what will be a, massive contribution to humanity. So when I sit with that, it's a pretty sacred process for me. 

Dr. Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: The next one to me is like really understanding that the adventure of a lifetime is like rearing children, having children, rearing them. Ha having them win at life, like launch successfully, having them meet their life partner, get married, have their own children, grandchildren, like [00:01:00] that to me is, conveying to them.

the AI is only as smart as the person asking the questions. And so it's absolutely crucial that children probably. I ideally until like maybe age 25, I would say stay as far away from AI as possible.

I personally think social media should be restricted to 25 and up again, because I just think that people get so embroiled in it and kids just get so taken out by it. 

To me the big thing, and you see this in Star Trek, you see it in Orville, you see it in a lot of sci-fi, content. The big thing, the like elephant in the room is like it, having yourself be the best you can be. Whatever that is. 

It's like having [00:02:00] yourself be the best you can be is potentially a activity that you can spend multiple lifetimes on.

Mrs. Madi Partovi: And I think that was, that is what will start to set us free, and provide peace. When we are in the consistent inquiry of that, like, why am I here? What am I here to say? What am I here to do? 

Dr. Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: And I'm so glad you said that because it was exactly what I was thinking, which is, for me the answer to that question is always in forever making a difference in the lives of others. Making the world a better place, leaving the world a better place than I found it. 

Mrs. Madi Partovi: Okay. Again, I'm gonna, I'm gonna frame it a different way. Okay. If you come from that, if you come from each step is anointed, like through the arc of your, your storyline. Whether [00:03:00] you start as, dude, I worked at a Kentucky Fried Chicken, okay. When I was younger. 

I'm going to open up my yoga studio, my movement and wellness studio called Yoga Monkey. I don't know what the heck I'm doing, but I'm gonna do it, and I'm going to take actions each and every single day, that are God-centered.

And then the next moment you're like, oh my God. It's just, so what I'm saying is that you keep, you take, you keep taking that God-centered action and you will get paid, the money will come 

I think 20 to 25 years from now, actual human ideas and human creativeness and human writing and whatever is generated by humans is going to be sought after. And so valuable. Valuable because you're gonna [00:04:00] have this whole, world of AI generated everything.

Dr. Ryan Partovi, JD, NMD, MIFHI: I think that human art will be even more valuable because of the fact that it is created by humans at a time when fewer and fewer humans can do that.