135. Learning The Lessons of Leadership

Sometimes learning happens when you least expect it. Sometimes it don't.

There are lots of learning moments in life. Some are as easy to recognize as being slapped across the face with an eel. Other learning moments, however, could take years before you finally realize the lesson.

I was seven years old, playing with my cousin and his friends. I didn’t know his friends all that well. But at some point, for reasons I still …