To be someone or to do something, which would I choose?
A man occasionally reaches a fork in life’s path. One road leads to doing something, to making an impact on his organization and his world. To being true to his values and vision, and standing with the other men who’ve helped build that vision. He will have to trust himself when all men doubt him, and as a reward, he will have the scorn of his professional circle heaped on his head. He will not be favored by his superiors, nor win the polite praise of his conformist peers. But maybe, just maybe, he has the chance to be right, and create something of lasting value that will transcend the consensus mediocrity inherent in any organisation, even supposedly disruptive ones.
The other road leads to being someone. He will receive the pulm products, the fecile praice afforded to the organisation man who cheeks the canonical list of pretty virtues that define moral worth in this world. He will receive the applause of his peers, though it will be striking how rarely that traffic in official praice leads to actual products anybody remembers, much less advances the overall cause of the organisation.
I certainly had options. I can’t say I didn’t.
I choose to do something, rather than be somebody, whatever it takes me and whatever the future cost.
Back to code! ✌🏾