Picking your team
You know that old saying, I wouldn’t want to belong to any group who would have me? Well, I was thinking about Obama and how he has picked a team of intelligent and diverse people to work with him over the next difficult four (hopefully eight) years. I love that about him. I’ve stood by and watched people I know structure their team – and seen most have a tendency to align themselves with the familiar, with the ones who will agree with their point of view, who will validate them. Like gays who only associate with gays or business leaders who prefer sycophants. You have to have a lot of self-esteem to tolerate dissenting opinion.
But the truth is you enrich your life by getting out of your own dirty bath water and swimming in the wide blue sea.