Surprisingly, there are 14 years between these books. That's exactly how long Leo Tolstoy felt one cycle of human maturation constitutes. He had an almost intimate idea of dividing life into periods—conditional periods in which, every fourteen years, a person reaches a new level of understanding.
If, putting aside excessive modesty (briefly and strictly for scientific purposes), we apply this logic to ourselves, a curious picture emerges.
I don't remember any names. I don't know who these children have become. I don't know which of them is in school today, who is already working, who is raising younger brothers and sisters, and who has long been swept away by a road that we don't even know exists. But I remember their eyes.
The assessment of the safety of products supplied to the market, without which the sale is impossible and illegal, protecting the consumer's health, does not guarantee him the effectiveness declared by the manufacturer. Meanwhile, there has long been equipment for assessing skin parameters, which in the hands of specialists can be used to objectively assess the effectiveness of cosmetic products and hardware methods.
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All my life, it seemed to me that answers make a person's thinking bigger and at the same time sharper. But over time, I realized that answers are born only where they are preceded by good questions. Not to the textbook or to the authority, but to reality itself — to what we see, but often do not notice. It is often said that human life is short. I am becoming more and more convinced that it can be "lengthened" — not by the number of years I have lived, but by the density of observations. In more detail...
or immediately into the telegram channel from observation to understanding
