My roommate for Freshman and Junior year was a history major with an emphasis on Asia. He often talked about the Meiji era. This half-Japanese kid knew nothing on the topic. Other than my grandmother's family came to the US during that era. And that my grandfather's stint at BU for his Masters was a few years after that era.
I have a virtual Duke reunion event this evening.
I just got reamed in an email by a PI (Primary Investigator for you non-research folks). Luckily, I was taught to fight with words, not fists (not even with hot pink boxing gloves). His response to MY response came down quite a few tones. Even signed off with Cheers. Wanker!
I memorized the whole thing, all 10 stanzas as a Bicentennial project and recited it in the backyard while the neighborhood kids acted out the story behind me on the 200th anniversary of the event (On the 18th of April in '75 . . . ). We invited the parents and some of my classmates to come. We had a small audience of maybe 20 people. Brother Hal played Paul Revere.
I've decided to do it again for the 250th. I can still recite the first 2 stanzas, so, I'm not starting from scratch. I'm sure I'll be able to talk some of my theater friends into acting it out behind me. Or maybe I'll get neighborhood kids.
I can remember multiple times in childhood when I got together with the kids from 3-4 other families who lived on our street and we "put on a show" in somebody's driveway or backyard. All the parents would come and watch us. Did anybody else do this as kids? (My kids have never done this.)
Ok. So I got feedback from the CEO when he approached my coworkers. The feedback was: we know he is successful and does a great job, but he operates differently from us and utilizes more resources than we do. I replied that I am successful BECAUSE I operate differently than they do and utilize my resources. Perhaps I am a case study in Dunning Kruger, but I consciously made the decision to do things differently and utilize resources and I think this makes my numbers the best in the country. Perplexed at their reaction. They all do things rhe exact same way, I do not. But there is no self-examination from them. Only rationalizations for why my numbers are so good. Maybe I'm wrong here?