[OBW]

I interviewed for a job about a month ago. I met with 5 different people at this company over a 3-1/2 hour period. When it was over, I had an impression about them. The following week, there was a one month project that my current employer was doing at that very company and I was assigned to it. So for one month got to observe some of the workings of these very people.

What I now understand is very different from what I originally saw. The top boss seemed very driven, but also seemed to be a very likeable person. Since then I have learned that he often simply “goes off” on people over small things. It seems that one of the others is looking for a way to get another of the people I interviewed with fired.

Now I’m sure that a lot about our personalities and even how we grow is nurture and not just nature. But just because one observes one thing at one point in time does not mean that something observed later did not exist even before the first observation.

In the case of Lee, I point back to Taiwan and even China because there are signs that what was presented in the 60s may not have been a complete representation of what was already there. I know I never like to admit that I could have been wrong. But when I learn something that I could not have known at the time but that was already true, I simply have to accept my error. While I do not say that Lee’s demeanor in 1966 was completely false, it now appears that it was not a complete and open display of what was already in existence. Was this an attempt to fool you? We can’t say. But even if it was an honest attempt to change back to what he realized he should be, we now know that there was already a history. Alcoholics sometimes get “on the wagon” for a while and can put on the face of succeeding at being rid of their addiction. If you never knew of their addiction, you might think they were the epitome of upright society. But if they fall back into drunkenness, you can think it is a new thing, but if it really is not, then you are deceived. It is not your fault. But the deception, whether or not intentional is very real.