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advice is autobiographical. Like we are coaching a younger version of ourselves
having gained some insight into the chaos. Like our world, is the world. I
regularly review my story, and my reading of it changes. I call this the “Adult
View”. Adult not always meaning wiser. Sometimes a bit more cynical. I have
several chips on my shoulders. I am insistent on ownership because I have put
my future in the hands of others, and had decisions made which I both disagreed
with and was powerless to do anything about. The make-up of the teams I
believed in changed to the point where the word team is rather abstract. Like
the story of a boat that gets repaired until none of the constituent parts are
the same as the original boat. I know I am like that boat. I am not the younger
version of myself, neither physically (our bodies regenerate) nor mentally (the
world I see now is not the world I saw then). The best we can do is build endurance
and resilience, and be creative. Rather than wisdom, age brings the awareness
that no one knows.
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