Note from the Editor:
Dartmouth almost immediately followed that latest startup attempt I’d made in Missouri, so now I was flying to New Hampshire via New York. I had been accepted into one of the Ivy League programs. What a time to be alive!
If you don’t know much about Dartmouth, know this: it is right up there in ranking with the other finest schools on the planet, such as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania. Excluding the prestigious service academies, such as the Air Force Academy and Annapolis (the Naval Academy, which I earned a Congressional appointment to back in 2000), these are the top places any student can get to go in the country and on the continent. They are rivaled only by overseas schools, such as Oxford and Institut le Rosey.
I don’t consider myself to be particularly smart, as far as human definitions of that term go, and I wasn’t accepting a scholarship, grant, or ‘full ride’ to complete a years-long degree program at this Ivy League campus. I was just accepting an invitation to attend some of its business management and executive leadership classes at its Tuck School of Business. That’s still pretty elite and cool. I just didn’t want you thinking I was saying I am now a Dartmouth alumnus.
If that wasn’t enough, everyone else at the program was an all-star they had hand-selected after reviewing tons of background information we’d all sent. Everyone else there had served as a military officer, or a SEAL Commander, or in the CIA or NSA, or directly for the President, or had been an actual Olympic athlete and medalist. There were such military and athletic heroes from my country, as well as Canada, Germany, Russia, and other lands. It was like the very start of the Inisfreean Congresses and Council of Elders I’d dreamed up and written into manifestation all those years ago!
We attended many classes throughout very busy days, hung out at restaurants and pubs after class, and did homework until we fell asleep each night. The temperature stayed low, allowing it to snow, and they all seemed surprised and a little concerned that I kept disregarding it, almost always showing up in short sleeves and shorts, even when it was the evening, dark out, and below freezing. Some of them were obviously trying to get a psychological ‘bead on me’, sizing me up with the kind of profiling and conversing they’d no-doubt been trained to use by other warrior and intel’ instructors on opponent elements while deployed, but I didn’t mind; it was thrilling to meet, study, and present speeches with them.
One of the major creations that happened thanks to this school and program… is the colorful triquetra I’ve been using as my company symbol ever since. You can see it on the browser tab for this web-page; its tiny version there is called a favicon, which is also on my business cards. A larger and high-res version is on my hat, and elsewhere on this website.
Thank you, Dartmouth, and everyone in the Next Step: Transition to Business program. You helped get another of my greatest waves of life’s work improvements started and firmly on track. I spent exactly the right amount of time in the Ivy League, this first pass, and I’m now ready to return for more –and to start an Ivy League-level institution for higher learning of my own.
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