Success Requires Clarity
Warren Buffet remembers speaking to a woman who had survived the Auschwitz concentration camp. Auschwitz was a complex of over forty concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II’s Holocaust. He asked this woman, “How do you define friendship?” She said her test was: “Would they hide me?” I take friendship very seriously. When I was studying to be a concert pianist, I had a friend. We were both 17. We were like sisters and even wrote a song together. You can listen to it here (scroll down to the song). There were just a few guys in our mostly all-girls music college of Shatalov where we were students, a prestigious music college in Russia. And we both managed to desperately like one guy. He wanted to be my boyfriend. I told him, as much as I would absolutely LOVE to be his girlfriend, I could not because it would be hard for my friend since she really liked him. When the sanctions were imposed on Russia this year, I dropped everything to move my family to another country. I went there for three weeks to set everything up, sort out the documentation,…