And while I'm grateful for the experience in the sense that you could follow a patient through their entire hospital admission and stay, and develop skills quickly, the truth is we were all exhausted.
It may seem like some people are just gifted with these skills, but the truth is most leadership traits can be learned and sharpened with time and practice.
To translate this into leadership development: let's say that I think I have great relationship-building skills, when the truth of the matter is that people find me overbearing and insensitive.
It says a lot for LaBute's skills that, when the truth finally comes out, we're poleaxed by it.
And if countries can't or don't report properly, or try to hide what they are really doing, Niles says the same accounting skills can reveal the truth anyway.
Rod's suspicions, which he delivers with sharp common sense, no-nonsense vigor (and acts on by way of his professional skills), cut closer to the truth of his and Chris's shared experience than does Chris's cultivated sophistication.
And with Scripture comes orthodoxy: parvenu superstars rapping about guns and women and sampling popular songs are somehow betraying the original ideals; these new popular artists are "rap," not hip-hop; hip-hop isn't about sampling well-known songs like Rick James's "Super Freak" and talking about champagne — it involves "skills" and an affinity for the "truth".
You may have been Phi Beta Kappa, but, despite those letters on your gold pin, you'll never out-Greek me". To tell the truth, our skills are complementary, and between us we manage to do a pretty good job for the company.
Telling the truth is a skill.
That art's nature is to be mimetic was widely assumed for centuries, and most commentators, including Aristotle, extolled the ability of the mimetic artist to capture with beauty and skill some truth about life and the world.
