Wow! The coolest people, John & Monica (or was it Ethan & Estelle?) just picked me up & took me from Dubbo to Blaxland where I have caught the train in to Davo's place before the early plane in the morning.
SHE is part of a team of 4 from a W.Sydney Uni, who helps thousands of yrs 9-12 school students become aware of their strengths and passions, and make informed plans (not just one, but Plan A,B,C,&D - she says that the most obvious path to an end point is not always the best) for their future, helping them discover, & inspiring them into futures with bigger horizons. They use books like Covey Junior's "7 habits of highly effective teens". Inspiring!
HE loves managing effective teams of people. He worked this out by a circuitous route. He loved cricket and football. So he thought "l'll be a sports commentator - following cricket & football. What could be better than being paid to watch your favourite sports?" It wasn't until the last year of his (uni?) course, playing football & cricket all the way through, on the weekends, that he realized that he had chosen the one job that would preclude him from ever being able to play football or cricket on the weekends, that would be his prime work time.
Somehow proving his wife's dictum about the (apparently) most straightforward route (at least to an 18yr old person, of little experience) not always being the most effective.
HE also told me the candid & surprising tale of a perceptive mate who had known him before his first marriage, who said to him during his grief at his wife leaving him, "You'll live to yet thank her for this." He couldn't agree with his mate at the time, but when he finally came to a point where it was true, he was glad of a mate with a bigger, more hopeful view than his.
Makes me look for other similar situations. I think they're around more than we dream of.
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