When I was in grade school I hated math and as a result I wasn’t very good at it. The fact is; I was probably at the bottom of the class in the subject and I was embarrassed more times than not. It really bothered me that I could not grasp the subject. However, I was lucky because in the 6th grade I had a teacher by the name of Mr. Joe Tameron.
Mr. Tameron was one of those guys that was easy to like. He was young, outgoing and good looking. He was the favorite of all the female students as well as all the women teachers.
He noticed that I was struggling with math and one day he took me aside and asked me if I liked mysteries and detective stories. When I told him they were my favorite kind of stories; he told me that mathematics was the same as a mystery puzzle.
You are given clues and you have to figure out what X is. He went on to demonstrate on several of my math questions. His demonstration changed my whole outlook on mathematics. He went on to say that mathematics was probably the only subject where there is only one answer. You are either right or you are wrong. He sold me!
After that math became my favorite subject and it has helped me throughout my career.
I later found the same thing that is true about math is also true about construction. It is either built correctly or it is not!
Our responsibility to our customers and the owners of any building that we are building is to build it right!
Keep that in mind in any project that you are part of!
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