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Good people do the honorable thing even when it’s hard. The other side of it is much easier. I’m starting to play golf a lot more. I find it a hard and rewarding game. I’ve been out four times now. My buddy has told me to pull things out of sand traps and other rough places because I’m learning. I feel dirty when I do it. Which is not often. Often I’ll tell him that I’m here to learn and grow and that taking the easy way out doesn’t give me the opportunity to work on the tough shots.

Same thing at work. The easy way out is to put the very minimal effort in. Being in security we’re often looked at for troubleshooting help. A lot of that is not because we have some special tools that give us more insight (that is some times the case. Often it’s not). Really it’s that we’re willing to dig into a problem and try to best understand it and find a solution.