Peter Bartalos

“Yet research shows that skill in reading, writing, and arithmetic, academic standing in high school, scores on college entrance tests and much more besides, are linked to sitting down to family dinner. The more meals you eat with your child, the larger the child’s vocabulary and the higher his or her grades, an effect that is exaggerated in girls. From”
― Susan Pinker, The Village Effect: Why Face-to-face Contact Matters

“An infant’s scent seems to flip certain neural switches in the parents. The mother’s sense of smell gets completely rewired during pregnancy, so that the scent of her own infant becomes incredibly alluring. In the meantime, though, because the olfactory infrastructure is being overhauled, other wonderful aromas may smell disgusting. When”
― Susan Pinker, The Village Effect: Why Face-to-face Contact Matters

“To a startling extent, in other words, our vision of the future is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Change your view of the future, and you direct your future.”
― Daniel Burrus, Flash Foresight: See the Invisible to Do the Impossible

“it would take the average American only eleven hours of labor per week to produce as much as he or she produced in forty hours in 1950.”
― Erik Brynjolfsson, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies