1.When you meet somebody at a party, how do you describe what you do?
I avoid talking about myself in those settings. We invited our neighbor over for dinner last week, and I was able to spend two hours in conversation and never mention my vocation, not even once—he has no idea what I do for a living.
He owns a ranch about 100 miles from here. I enjoyed talking to him about that. We had a lovely evening.
You really do learn more listening, not talking. I’ve watched smart people achieve amazing things just by keeping their mouths shut. Isn’t that how Claudius became Roman emperor?
But if I’m in a situation where someone absolutely insists on knowing what I do, I just admit that my life story makes no sense whatsoever. I’ve done lots of things and the connections between them are hard to discern.
They probably don’t even exist.
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