Tina Seelig

I don't even actually remember this, by the way.

I don't remember this.

But here's what happened.

15 years later, I'm in consideration for my current job.

And it turns out that the person who was leading that trip was now on the interviewing team for me.

Had I behaved badly 15 years earlier, there is no way I would have my job.

And luck is a long game.

I look at sometimes, I mean, yesterday, one of our students did something that was just not very respectful.

And everybody on our team just looked at each other and like, why would you do that?

You just burned bridges long into the future.

What happens in five years when I get a reference call for you?

Someone says, oh, I understand that this was your student.

Right?

So you need to understand that the choices you make today determine the choices you will have in the future.

Exactly.

Good or bad luck.

Exactly.

And so with you, and so I'm so aware, I mean, listen, I'm an old person now.

I wish I knew this when I was younger, that every time I do something, it is part of how people see me.

And that they're going to be making choices about how they engage with me in the future based on how I behave today.