“Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you wanted. And it can be the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
Randy Pausch, Parade Newspaper Magazine, April 6, 2008, Parade Publications
This quote could not have come at a better time. I just finished meeting with one of my employee’s and he had somehow gotten into his head that everyone was looking down on him because he was new to our career field and new to the Army way of doing business. He had been in the Navy for six years. At the time, the best advice I could give him was that experience comes with time. It is not something you can instantly gain or understand. Randy Pausch’s article was interesting and uplifting. A few nights ago, he was featured on prime-time news special and I find it amazing that he and his wife are being so courageous and open about this very personal battle he is facing.
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