ANDREW THORN - THE AUTHENTIC ME

When I was a kid, my dad often told me, "people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care." I know now, that he was quoting Teddy Roosevelt, but when I was growing up, I thought these were his words.

He certainly lived by them. He seemed to know and care about everyone. I recall driving through many of the towns that surrounded our area and he would point to businesses and houses and then tell the story of the people that worked and lived there.

I remember sitting at malls or airports with my dad and just watching the people, as they would walk past. We would rarely comment, we just sat and studied them. I learned a lot about expressions and emotions during those frenetic moments. I wanted to be like him so I began to care more about people than I cared about anything else.