Skip to content

Truths & Wonders

Reflections from a lifelong journey of learning

  • About This Blog

Tag: reading

Read Closely, Listen Actively, Lead Wisely

On March 2, 2025 By Steve SampsonIn Words, Words, WordsLeave a comment

Do whatever it takes to let yourself fully engage—to read and think and write back. The right people will love you for it.

Mr. Know-it-All

On March 12, 2017September 18, 2017 By Steve SampsonIn Formative Memories2 Comments

Twenty years ago, I learned how little I really know--through a chance encounter outside a library with perhaps the smartest man I've ever met.

Current Top Posts

  • If You Can Read This, Thank Ms. Aspinall 
    If You Can Read This, Thank Ms. Aspinall 
  • How I Became a Ladies Man
    How I Became a Ladies Man
  • Two Lessons I Learned from My Labrador
    Two Lessons I Learned from My Labrador
  • Time Is The Real Bottom Line
    Time Is The Real Bottom Line
  • From the Inside Out and the Outside In
    From the Inside Out and the Outside In
  • When You Catch Yourself Looking Down on Others, Look Up
    When You Catch Yourself Looking Down on Others, Look Up
  • The Other 7 Billion of Us
    The Other 7 Billion of Us
  • The Best Advice My Mom Ever Gave Me
    The Best Advice My Mom Ever Gave Me
  • My Father's Secret Strength
    My Father's Secret Strength
  • What I Learned from the Teen Psychologist
    What I Learned from the Teen Psychologist

Categories

  • Fatherly Advice
  • Formative Memories
  • Memoirs
  • Musings
  • Words, Words, Words
Follow Truths & Wonders on WordPress.com

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Tags

adulthood advice AI artificial intelligence attention bias books character childhood cognitive science communication community creative nonfiction creativity editing embodiment ethics expectations family fatherhood fiction florence gratitude grit growing up happiness human nature imagination inspiration journalism judging judgment knowing knowledge language learning life listening love meaning measures memoir memory metrics mind mindfulness misinformation music nature nonfiction parenting perception perseverance philosophy politics psychology relationships resilience science self-help spirituality story storytelling teaching technology teens thinking thoughts time truth understanding wisdom words work writing

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Archives

Blog at WordPress.com.

Loading Comments...