Life is a series of daring adventures from a secure base

Human development research offers a different formula: All of life is a series of daring adventures from a secure base. If government can create a framework in which people grow up amid healthy families, nurturing schools, thick communities and a secure safety net, then they will have the resources and audacity to thrive in a free global economy and a diversifying skills economy.

— David Brooks, March 3, 2017

From the essay Trumpism at Its Best, Straight Up