Oh I have had a great career and enjoyed it tremendously and still enjoy it. But I’ve had clear goals that were hard to achieve that I feel proud of achieving,

Oh I have had a great career and enjoyed it tremendously and still enjoy it. But I’ve had clear goals that were hard to achieve that I feel proud of achieving, but I had some other attachment in the “quest” that I thought would make me more like the folks I respected. It wasn’t until I became one of them that I realized they were never different than me, they had just worked hard like I had. If anything that’s humbling but it also cleared my mind of a lot of motivations that were based on a falsehood I told myself. I hear the same falsehoods in a lot of the engineers who look up to me now and I want to shake them and say “it’s not true.” But I’ve never gotten any of them to actually hear me.