Personal Counsel

We are constantly influenced and judged by the company we choose to keep close.

Question, If you could choose any 5 people currently living to be your personal mentors and advisors, who would it be?

Better yet, what would be the reasons behind each choice?

My choice was simple, the criteria... A group of strong, accomplished and diverse individuals who each hold vastly different experiences backgrounds and skill sets. The goal to have advisors who will provide multiple perspectives and challenge established opinions with healthy debate. I choose constant challenge and diversity to avoid becoming complacent and stagnant. In effort to keep my eyes and mind open, that I may see in ways I have not seen before and never cease to grow in intellect and wisdom.


Darian's Fab Five:

* Steve Jobs is inventive, creative, idealist, out with the old in with the new.

* Jack Welch is efficiency, productiveness, and cost cutting ruthlessly measured.

* Colin Powel is strength, honor, loyalty, respect, and the walking definition of speak softly and carry a big stick.

* Alan Greenspan is economy, finance, money, and wise investment.

* Lance Armstrong is personal ambition, iron will power, pure unbridled competition, unyielding drive, and a stubborn unwillingness to accept defeat.

My rebuttle to San's ‘Mickey Mouse’ Club…
Sure these are the guys you would take advice from?!

* Tucker Max – An idiot drinking buddy with a handful of STDs and some decent sophomoric jokes.

* Seth Rogen – An idiot drinking buddy with a handful of STDs and some decent sophomoric jokes.

* Bill Clinton – Charismatic, great talker, Washed Up… Next First Lady? He was the most successful president in office only because he did nothing! Genius! That was the whole fucking point of America to begin with, small government, limited and checked power = freedom from tyranny… Bonus, the resulting competition and capitalism found in public freedom creates a successful economy.

* Edmund Morris – Lame old guy who was made fun of growing up the rich white kid in a Kenyan neighborhood. He clearly never got laid and has spent all his days since then hiding out in a library. He wishes he had the balls and moxy to be one of the guys he writes about.

* John Roberts Jr – This was the closest you came to an acceptable choice of counsel. Except that he couldn’t be trusted. He’s the darkest type of liar who would slice his mother’s throat if he thought it could get him promoted, which means he’d do the same to you (duh, he’s a lawyer). Oh and he’s deeper in the closet than Larry Craig, Cruise and every catholic priest, monk and bishop combined… a republican married to the feminist movements ‘closet lesbian’ legal counsel? WTF! Granted, if you have no interest in sex, the marriage, better described as a ‘business union’, does win loads of political approval from the female gender!! Just don’t come out of the closet or you lose it all!!!
*** Think about it => republican-catholic self-hatred, feminist closet lesbian wife, and adopted progeny … he can’t get it up, she doesn’t want it and neither can risk the political fallout of a prescription for Viagra. No worries though, adopting wins big popularity points from the general public these days.