About Me
I told my high school English teacher, Mr. K, I was going to be a writer. As a graduation gift, he bought me my first leather bound notebook. There were 60 pages. They were unlined.
He wrote inside:: “May your imagination and inspiration fill these pages as you pursue your dreams.”
That was eight years ago.
I still buy unlined notebooks.
I told my Engineering teacher the same thing. He said if I was going to waste my life with that career, he could not, in good conscience, write me a recommendation letter for my college applications.
I run into more men and women like the Engineering teacher than Mr. K, living in Los Angeles and making it in a field as fickle and unforgiving as entertainment. Most possess a similar mindset in that they’re eager to dispense malice and bitterness under the guise of advice, shielded by what they call “good intentions.”
Surround yourself with this thinking long enough, and it begins to permeate yours. You begin to adopt their mental models: that zero-sum gains are the only gains, arrogance and disdain are the surest paths to the top, and “enthusiasm” is the same as “naivety.”
This blog is my reminder this is only as true as we allow, where I write about values and character to mind my own.
