To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems

Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.

I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.

Liberating but hard to remember we're just bit-parts in the lives of people we know, who care very little for our secrets

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.

We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus

Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty