Original Posted By: "Cuy, Michael D. (GRC-RXD0)[ASRC]"
Pietenpol-List: eyebrows and tough love
Re: Pietenpol-List: eyebrows and tough love
Original Posted By: Cuy, Michael D. (GRC-RXD0)[ASRC]
Mike,Thank you for your input. I too was raised with the "kick in the butt to inspire" method (I'm 62) if it was needed. I was also raised with the belief that you don't tell a person what he can't do, you tell him he can do anything he wants to, if he wants to do it bad enough. None of this putdown tellling him he's only good enough to do such & such. I grew up in a very poor small mountain town where the High School teachers were telling you what you couldn't do in life unless you got all A's in their class, rather than telling you what you can do in life. If it hadn't been for my dad telling me I could do anything I wanted, I'd still be back there like all the rest of my class mates, doing nothing with their lives. They learned it from their teachers and no one told them otherwise. For me, because of my dad's advise and mentoring, I was able to retire at 41, take my family on a sailing adventure on the Pacific for 12 years and then spend the last 5 years as a Marine Captain in the Arctic.In writing Corky, my mission was to let him know that this is one person that doesn't like to be talked down to and I suspect I'm not alone. I don't expect to be coddled and burped, just pointed in the right direction with as many traveling instructions as possible (that's what a mentor does).I'm sure Corky is a nice guy but I can tell you that the other Piet builders/flyers that responded to my questions motivated me many times more than Corky has.Boy, you can sure tell it's a rainy day here in Tennessee. I have way too much time on my hands. Hell with it, I'm going to the hanger.GeneN502RTennessee ----- Original Message -----
Mike,Thank you for your input. I too was raised with the "kick in the butt to inspire" method (I'm 62) if it was needed. I was also raised with the belief that you don't tell a person what he can't do, you tell him he can do anything he wants to, if he wants to do it bad enough. None of this putdown tellling him he's only good enough to do such & such. I grew up in a very poor small mountain town where the High School teachers were telling you what you couldn't do in life unless you got all A's in their class, rather than telling you what you can do in life. If it hadn't been for my dad telling me I could do anything I wanted, I'd still be back there like all the rest of my class mates, doing nothing with their lives. They learned it from their teachers and no one told them otherwise. For me, because of my dad's advise and mentoring, I was able to retire at 41, take my family on a sailing adventure on the Pacific for 12 years and then spend the last 5 years as a Marine Captain in the Arctic.In writing Corky, my mission was to let him know that this is one person that doesn't like to be talked down to and I suspect I'm not alone. I don't expect to be coddled and burped, just pointed in the right direction with as many traveling instructions as possible (that's what a mentor does).I'm sure Corky is a nice guy but I can tell you that the other Piet builders/flyers that responded to my questions motivated me many times more than Corky has.Boy, you can sure tell it's a rainy day here in Tennessee. I have way too much time on my hands. Hell with it, I'm going to the hanger.GeneN502RTennessee ----- Original Message -----