 When I was the CMC a few years back out in Colorado I check in and check out what every sailor that comes through and I had a young man young sailor come into the office and second class and we go through you know the dialogue and at the end of it I said do you have any questions for me and he said yeah man chief I got one for you and he goes how do I become the top sailor in this organization very bold question very bold question outstanding question and it makes you sit back and think and just like you talked about mentoring earlier right that's a mentoring session right there what we're doing right now is a mentoring session every interaction that we have with one another is mentoring you may be looking at me as a senior mentor but I'm also looking to you as a mentor because there's qualities that you have their skills that you have that I don't have I look at that keyboard in front of you and I go you don't want me to touch that it will never operate the same way so you know when he asked me that question I had to think about it hard and I didn't want him to walk away not receiving anything so and to tie this to the precept in all you know I told the young man I said go out and look how the top 10 20% of this organization are operating today observe them see what they're doing see what they're engaged in how they carry themselves every day as leaders as technical experts as community managers as ambassadors out there personal development in their lives whatever it may be and the precept talks about all these things and I said what I want you to do is observe but don't do what they do they operate they get involved in the things that they get involved in because it's what they want to do they're passionate about it and if you try to mirror them you may not have that same passion because it doesn't interest you the way it interests them so if you're gonna get involved in something get involved in it because you want to do it you want to make it better than when you got it so that the people around you the people that are impacted by these programs that you're involved in they're gonna be better the families are gonna be better because all your engagement with it and that's the message that I left with the young man