<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 14, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Leslie Bartlett wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="696402204-15022007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: -khtml-left; ">Whattaya think????????????????????????? I wonder who made you god......... Wow. There is a vast difference in confidence and arrogance, the realization that in all things human, humans will prove themselves fallible.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>My point is, Les, that I am, have been, and continue to be completely fallible, and hopefully more and more confident and less and less arrogant. I have made every single mistake that it's possible for a piano technician to make; I've failed in every realm of this business, usually many times, and I've got regrets, and skeletons in the closet. What I do have, and have had for quite a while, is a super-high standard for myself in this work, because I know how lazy and unfocused I can be; I know how my mind can make excuses and rationalizations for why I shouldn't give my best, shouldn't BE excellent all the time. I know, by my teaching and mentoring experiences, and being in close relationship & friendship with many other craftsmen and women, that I'm not alone in this struggle, and that I need help in staying excellent---sometimes I need to be strong with myself and other people, and I was directing that strength to the notion that something that's "acceptable" or even "more than acceptable" is the bar we want to set for ourselves as respected, honored professionals.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I hope you understand my point more clearly now....</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>David Andersen</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>