Sam Sawchuk

Every bit of falseness you let into your life takes you away from reality.

Great people change you, not by expectation but by inspiration.

One of the biggest reasons it gets harder to do new things as you get older is that new things are generally undignified at first (indeed, this is an excellent heuristic for discovering them) and the older you get, the more dignified you're expected to be.

In 1954, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey investigated a lag measure that parents around the country were increasingly worried about. “Parents,” Hersey writes, “[are] in dismay that their children can not read.” For 2 years, Hersey read children’s books, met with experts, and attended schools to observe how reading was taught. “It became o... See more

Imagine how much relationships would change if people went into one thinking “how can I make this person’s life better” instead of “how can this person make my life better”