Dive Brief:
- In a speech in the fall, Sewanee Vice-Chancellor John McCardell told the university community about Willie Six, an athletic trainer at the college for 40 years.
- A reporter asked Six after a retirement ceremony what the best year was in his time in Sewanee athletics, and Six told him it was "the year comin' up."
- It was, McCardell noted, a view of constant optimism, a belief that the best work was yet to come.
Dive Insight:
Willie Six's approach has a lot to recommend it to anyone in business. The year "comin up" is a chance to learn more, demonstrate more, be more creative, show your mettle if things have not been going well. What's built is built. What's yet to be built is your opportunity.
