I can appreciate the way your thinking, attitude, and actions can be changed to make a better and more fulfilling life for yourself. I am pretty sure my dad would have been proud of me if I had gotten to do our school year with this stuff.
Of course, that’s not to say that you don’t need to change your own behavior to make your life better. If you want your life to be more like your brother’s, you have to learn to give yourself as much autonomy as possible. And you need to do so from the very beginning, before you have kids.
The way modern business schools approach this is very different from what my dad did when I was in college. He was an early adopter of the “work-life balance” philosophy, which is great if you want to be a lawyer, but you really want to be a professor, or maybe a doctor. Working with people and not giving too much to your personal time are very important to learning how to be a good leader, or a good boss.
The school I went to gave us a lot of freedom to pursue any path we wanted. We basically had a full-time job that we could work on our own projects, but it was also a place that we could learn about and grow, and that really allowed our growth. I was very lucky to have that. The same isn’t true for my dad, who had an equally full-time job, and he was very limited in what he could do with that.
But then, as I mentioned earlier, there are some people who get this kind of freedom, and then run into trouble. For example, in the case of my dad and a lot of my classmates, the school had a rule that everyone had to be in the same room, and that included me. As a result, I was allowed to talk to my dad, and was allowed to interact with other people.
A few years ago I was told that my dad was the person who was supposed to be in the room. He was supposed to be somewhere else, which I don’t remember as well. But that was it.
As I said, there are a lot of people who are in a “school” that are in the same situation. Many of my classmates in high school (and many of my friends after high school) are in the exact same place and situation, so they are not the least bit surprised when they receive an email from their dad saying “the school has decided you are to be barred from speaking to me in person.
I don’t think anyone is trying to kill me.
I have to admit I was a little worried when I saw the email. I dont have any close friends that are in school right now, and I was worried the school would ban me from speaking to them. But I guess I should be grateful that they didn’t ban me from speaking to my father. Because this was a pretty bad thing.
They did not ban you from speaking to your dad though. In fact, you were talking to your father and your school, and not the other way around. They did ban you from speaking to anyone else.
