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To: louel who wrote (133478)	5/1/2017 11:30:15 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	1 Recommendation Recommended By dan6 Respond to of 217656

I think a lot of success is learned behavior. If I were given to anxiety I could look back at the things I've done and ask what the hell made me think I could do what I was doing? But I was a smart as anyone and more tenacious and focused on my work life than most. But I was just talking to my 10 years younger brother and told him what he's doing is supposed to be fun and laughs - he just too serious and when you're serious and uptight the other people you need information from get all clammed up as well. He stayed at home working for my Dad who now has Alzheimer's so my brother has to step up and take over. Almost all of his job is going to be communicating with other people and he hasn't realized it's supposed to be fun both for himself and the people he talks to. In construction, real estate management and development you can't know everything but because of your network of friends you're only a phone call or two away from knowing what you need to know. Everyone is very open because it's friendly business with nice people, and everyone knows all of the this information-sharing always brings in money eventually. There are secretive crab apples in that industry as well - but who works with them? Not me or anyone I know. My business partner and I always laughed that we gave our clients 90% of their answer for free and charged them for months of work to give them the remaining 10%. Engineers said they did the same. I think that's the way you see things when you you are very good at what you do. To you it's easy and obvious but to your clients it's a magic trick. It's fun being the magician. I have a sense that your success may have required more sacrifice on your part than it did for myself, because I don't think I carry much resentment about people who make other choices or can't do what I've done because they're mentally ill, stupid or not as capable. I have low tolerance level for the deluded and people who want to be dopes but as long as I don't have to waste time on them - it's their life. My Grandmother often gave off the same vibe - I was about ten and we were driving up to my Grandparent's mountain cabin from Los Angeles and on the way the freeway passed over a distressed looking neighborhood. I asked her who lived there and she replied, "That's where the poor people live. They're poor because they're lazy and don't want to work." She wasn't always like that and she had been poor herself as a child since her Dad had died at the age of 42, but she had this harsh edge that came from the hardness of her earlier life.