AE: ANECDOTES WITH INTENTION

Make Your Standards Clear

Personal Experience shared by Richard G. Scott at a BYU Devotional


One summer, as a teenager, I worked on an oyster boat off the coast of Long Island in New York to earn funds for college.

The other members of the crew were seasoned oystermen, hardened by the harsh winter environment in which they spent much of their lives battling the icy ocean and raw wind to secure their catch.

I was an enigma to them, easier to distrust than to understand.

They shunned me as a company spy, then as a crazy kid who didn't know how to be a man.

Later, I became better at my duties and tried to build friendships.

They offered to make me "a real man" by joining them on their all-night indulgences.

IT CONTINUES...