I recently had the extreme honor of speaking to the Truman State University Academic Honor Award recipients. These young men and women were honored as the outstanding students in their respective disciplines. I was asked to tell them what my liberal arts education has meant to me. Now let me be perfectly clear here, this was the first Academic Honor Award ceremony I have ever attended. Most of the winners had minors and/or double majors. Some of the winners were honored as the outstanding student in two majors! If statistics prove right, most of them will go on to earn advanced degrees. I wondered for weeks what knowledge I had that would ever be of any use to them. And then it hit me, for most of them, the career at which they will excel and be on the leading edge of, probably doesn't even exist yet. So I gave them advice that would prepare them to spot and to act on the opportunities I can't even comprehend that will take them on their jou...
Life and leadership are not about which path you take, they are about the choices you make when the roads diverge. The are not achieved in a one-day or one-month. They are compiled through a lifetime of education, experience, and reflection.