Originally posted by TimeMachinE30
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I wasn't nearly as enlightened/woke/whatever phrase the kids are using nowadays as I am now (or at least as much as I think I am now). I was more of a "Put it right in front of me, and I'll get it done" type of person. Little attention was paid to the process of extrapolating the ideas laid forth in a back of that significance, by a man of that stature, to the situation I may have found myself in.
Even if I had better understood the book and it's primary message, I would most likely have fallen short in any form of implementation. I was simply too focused on doing the absolute best job that I could. The external push to perfect the PFT, (and later CFT), along with competing and winning Marine and NCO of the Quarter boards, and adhering to the Corps core values, left very little time to contemplate ones tiny place in a massive system.
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