When Your Kids Turn 13, An Alien

For A While In My Teens, I Was Sure I Had It. It Was About Getting To Heaven. If Heaven Existed And Lasted Forever, Then A Mere Lifetime Spent Scrupulously Following Orders Was A Small Investment For An Infinite Payoff. One Day, Though, I Realized I Was No Longer A Believer, And Realizing That, I Couldn't Go Back.

I Found I Wasn't Asking Good Enough Questions Because I Assumed I Knew Something. I Would Box Them Into A Corner With A Badly Formed Question, And They Didn't Know How To Get Out Of It. Now, I Let Them Take Me Through It Step By Step, And I Listen.

Testosterone Poisoning: … Until Now It Has Been Thought That The Level Of Testosterone In Men Is Normal Simply Because They Have It. But If You Consider How Abnormal Their Behavior Is, Then You Are Led To The Hypothesis That Almost All Men Are Suffering From ‘testosterone Poisoning.’

My Relationship With Science Is As Someone Who's Curious And Hungry To Know, Hungry To Understand. So All I Have To Offer Is My Ignorance And My Curiosity, Which Is A Good Combination, As Long As They Come Together.

If You Don't Listen Deeply, The Connection Won't Take Place.... [you Have To Be] Willing To Be Changed By The Person You're Listening To, Where You're Not Just Waiting For A Pause So You Can Say Your Thing, But You're Actually Letting Them Have An Effect On You If They Can.