{"id":4339,"date":"2010-01-13T13:30:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T18:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=4339"},"modified":"2010-01-13T13:31:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T18:31:43","slug":"life-is-a-process-of-growth-and-maturity-wherein-we-seek-our-level-of-incompetance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/4339","title":{"rendered":"Life Is A Process Of Growth And Maturity, Wherein We Seek Our Level Of Incompetance&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was handed the following books by one of my project managers today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The One Minute Manager<\/li>\n<li>Managing Projects &#8211; Harvard Business School Press<\/li>\n<li>Leading Teams &#8211; Harvard Business School Press<\/li>\n<li>Running Meetings &#8211; Harvard Business School Press<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m at that stage in the life of every little tadpole techno nerd kid who one day becomes an engineer somewhere and then goes on to become a senior engineer and then one day finds themselves reading the Harvard Business School Press. \u00a0 So I&#8217;m walking back to my little office feeling a tad elated somehow. \u00a0 It&#8217;s always Very Nice to know your employer wants to keep and nurture you. \u00a0 Plus, it&#8217;s good to find new challenges. \u00a0 Your brain needs challenge if you&#8217;re not to get simply old and tired and set in your ways. \u00a0 You just can&#8217;t let your one life slide on past you like that. \u00a0 Yes&#8230;this is all well and good. \u00a0 Except I&#8217;m walking back to my little corner of the Institute and this line from a song I haven&#8217;t recalled since I was a teenager suddenly bubbles up from somewhere in the shag carpet basement of my brain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8230;Find out I&#8217;m the chosen one<br \/>\n<strong>Oh noooooo!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ever since The One Minute Manager first came out, something deep down inside of me would get a tad irritated every time I laid eyes on its cover. \u00a0 <em>Any art you can teach in a minute cannot be that worthwhile. \u00a0 Is this why so many bosses are idiots?<\/em> And now here I am reading the damn thing. \u00a0 \u00a0 But the Harvard stuff looks good actually. \u00a0 And&#8230;I guess I need to know this stuff now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Life goes on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was handed the following books by one of my project managers today&#8230; The One Minute Manager Managing Projects &#8211; Harvard Business School Press Leading Teams &#8211; Harvard Business School Press Running Meetings &#8211; Harvard Business School Press I guess I&#8217;m at that stage in the life of every little tadpole techno nerd kid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-4339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-this-and-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}