I’m not sure there is a clear correlation, Einstein, Aristotle, Descartes, Shakespeare, Napoleon, Galileo, Jung, Socrates, Wagner, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Jobs, Picasso, Tolkien, Darwin, Planck, Bach, Marcus Aurelius all had children.

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Your pool is 10-20 times bigger. If people couldn’t find meaning or direction or happiness or freedom from the system without kids none of my list would exist (forgot Newton, Hume, Woolfe, Kant, Dickinson…)