So I'm old now. The “big four-oh”. Sort of feels like Friday. I started to write something all introspective and "judgy" about where I am in my life, and I realized how mind-crushingly cliché that is. “Cliché” I can handle; “mind-crushing,” not so much. Let me instead mention some gifts I’ve unexpectedly gotten over the years, usually not on my birthday, that have helped me to get to today and will hopefully carry me on for at least another forty years. Ancient Wisdom and Management Fads This gift is credited to Ken Bralich. It would have been about fourth grade. We were at my house, in the back yard around my family’s pool. Ken watched me with puzzlement as I laboriously dried myself off from the feet up, having to go back often and re-dry places I’d already visited. Ken looked at me and said “You know, Jim, if you just dry yourself off from the top down, you won’t have to do it all over again”. To say it had never occurred to me is probably lame at this point...
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