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What's interesting is that it is now 25 years since you got your MBA and as part of your MBA experience, you were asked to write a 25 year plan.
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I was. How did that work out for you?
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There was a professor, I think his name was Dr. Nailor.
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Does that sound right? Tom Nailor.
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Yeah, Tom Nailor.
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And, he was a great professor and one of the things that he'd ask us to do was to write a 25 year plan.
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Maybe some of you have had to do this.
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And, it was more of a you know more of a personal plan.
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And normally, I would never remember this, but I was doing a commencement address a few years ago and I was scrambling for some old things, and I found, in a box, this plan.
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And, this plan had turned yellow because of age, but I looked at it and I would say it was reasonably accurate for all of 18 to 24 months, after it was written.
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And, it was nothing, there was nothing, a single thing on it that was accurate post that, not a single thing.
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Zero!
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And, I think that the lesson there is, at least for me, maybe you guys will be different, maybe you have much more insight into what you may be doing.
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But for me the journey was not predictable at all.
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And, it goes sort of back to the Lincoln quote, is the only thing I believe you can do is prepare.
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And, the world is gonna change many times.
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The environment is gonna change many times.
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The companies that you work for are going to ebb and flow, you may wind up in the same company, you may not.
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You may wind up in the same career, you may not.
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You may wind up with the spouse you're married to now, you may not.
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There are lots of things in your life.
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I hope that one doesn't change.
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But, there's lots of things that change, and I think that you sort of have to have a north star.
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And, stay with the north star and let those things go on about you, and sort of find your, find your journey.