23 - The Mentor's Gift
TO THE READER
There is a particular kind of help that arrives from a direction you were not watching. It comes from someone who owes you nothing, who belongs to a different camp, who has no stake in whether you succeed.
When that help comes, most people are suspicious of it. They start looking for the angle. What does he want? What is this going to cost me?Sometimes the answer is nothing. Somet...
22 - Truth Is Not Afraid
TO THE READER
Most people, when they love something, protect it from the truth. They build a version of the story that flatters them, and then they defend it for the rest of their lives.
There is another way to go about it, and it is much harder. You go looking for the people who can tell you that you are wrong. You invite the correction. You want it.
To understand James Mitose honestly, this i...
21 - The Crime That Wasn't His
TO THE READER
A man sat in a prison cell for a crime he did not commit. He could have said so. The truth was on his side, and there were people willing to fight for him.He did not fight. He told the people around him that he was guilty. He said it plainly, and he let the verdict stand.
Hanshi has spent more than fifty years trying to understand that decision. Most people, hearing it, assume the...
