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WHAT I'VE LEARNED
1 I don’t like the taste of frogs – not even their legs
But I do like turning them upside down on their back and rubbing their tummy so they go to sleep.
So curious why they do that. Frogs are cool.
2 Find something you love and build on it
Literally. Work on something with your hands (not always a computer).
Planning helps, but building things from scratch (or while scratching your head) can be great too.
3 You don’t have to be a total maniac to be a great at your job and be successful
I was an assistant to plenty of them. Most of them burned out or got burned. Just be consistent, creative, persistent and a valued problem solver. You’ll do just fine.
Oh, Qigong helps too…
4 Life is to be lived, not controlled
Being caught in a hurricane in the middle of the ocean and being thought as lost at sea for over 20 days made me truly realize that you are just a speck of something greater and that most things are way out of your singular control
5 I could push, pull & flip things all day
More physically. Only rarely mentally…
My father used to call me “Buttons”. From him, I was fortunate enough to learn a quality of determined curiosity and that if you push the right buttons, pull the
correct levers, or flip the right switch, something positive will happen.