Jim Johnson frames a short talk contrasting the human/individual perspective with the business perspective and suggests there can be alignment between them. He uses a personal anecdote—dreaming of becoming a professional baseball player that didn’t pan out—to question whether the original dream was the true underlying aspiration or a misdirected goal.
All be options. And so I want to talk about this from two sides today. There's the human individual side, and then there's the business side. And I think there's some alignment between those two things. So what happened? Right? Like, what happens to most of us? We have these big aspirations. I remember, man, I dreamed of being a professional baseball player, and that didn't work out. And I was like, I got to go get a job and I'm going to keep working that job to try and make that thing work out later. Like, I'm going to, I got to go do this. And still that dream is there. But everyday life, everyday work, everyday, everything led me on a different path. The question was, was the dream the right dream, being a professional baseball player, or was it something else? And I just wasn't clicking to it yet.
