I don’t know what to say. There are different people in different environment.
from the book
It never occurred to me that Armco wouldn’t be around forever, funding scholarships, building parks, and throwing free concerts.
At that moment, I resolved to be the type of man who would smile when someone gave him an eraser.
The experience taught me a valuable lesson: that I could do it.
It’s hard to put a dollar value on that advice. It’s the kind of thing that continues to pay dividends. But make no mistake: The advice had tangible economic value. Social capital isn’t manifest only in someone connecting you to a friend or passing a résumé on to an old boss. It is also, or perhaps primarily, a measure of how much we learn through our friends, colleagues, and mentors. I didn’t know how to prioritize my options, and I didn’t know that there were other, better paths for me. I learned those things through my network—specifically, a very generous professor.
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