Posts Tagged ‘expectations’
Managing Expectations
Managing Expectations Tom Cruise has a funny line in Top Gun: Maverick. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell delivers it sarcastically during the early briefing scene, when he’s being questioned about his history and reputation. It’s classic Maverick: confident, slightly defiant, and subtly humorous. He acknowledges that people expect trouble, so he keeps the bar low. Managing expectations…
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Anticipation. That is the title to a 70’s song by Carly Simon. Just a few lines of the lyrics say, “We can never know about the days to come, But we think about them anyway.” It’s a secular perspective on life. Every person who walks on this planet could identify with those lyrics. But as…
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