Being the Best You You Can Be! — A Call to Arete!

SEE HERE I never cared much for Steve Jobs.  I think I should admit that up front, sort of telling you where I'm coming from.  I don't like Bill Gates either.  But very few of us can be admired for all of our traits.  If we could I suppose we'd all be saints.  So facing up to the fact that we are all flawed in one way or another, it seems appropriate to remember that everyone is faceted with good facets and not so good facets.  Steve Jobs was a jerk in many ways but he had a gift for drawing excellence out of others.  Bill Gates is a jerk too in many ways but has a gift for seeing the long range impact of things.  He managed to see the impact of the operating system on the personal computer revolution and the impact of bundling word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation software so that they interoperated easily.  There are a lot of people that are smart and never accomplish much.  There are fewer that are smart and have a gift for seeing a little into the future.  Charity includes acknowledging the good in someone while not forgetting the bad.  As Marc Anthony says in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar "The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones."  We should remember not just the evil but the good.