"jamesokeefeiii I found my Eagle Scout portrait going through files from the office flood. Two things occur to me looking at this photo taken 20 years ago; 1) The passage of time no longer scares me as it once did. 2) I often forget how formative Scouting was. Scouting taught me to do a lot of uncomfortable, necessary things. There were parts of Northwestern New Jersey both mountainous and remote — where I did all the outdoorsy things like shoot, hunt, navigate, build a shelter, sail a boat, perform CPR, apply a tourniquet, etc. But the most important moment I recall was at my Eagle Scout “Board of Review” conference in January 2003 when the Scoutmaster/Counselor asked me a final question; what do I want to do with my life. I told him I didn’t know, but I went on a rant about the media. I recognized that the news-media portrayed events much differently than they existed in reality — that things were not as they seemed, and seldom as they should be. I wanted to do something about that. The counselor suggested in a serious tone that I should consider journalism. That was the first and only time anybody ever suggested that, and it stayed with me. A year or so later at 19 yo I founded the Rutgers Centurion, a monthly magazine. A year or so after that I started ambushing professors with a video camera, which was an extremely uncomfortable thing for an introvert to do, but like all the other things I learned in the woods, I felt it necessary. #ᴛʙᴛ"

edit: took the opportunity to add emphasis to my favourite part.

"jamesokeefeiii I found my Eagle Scout portrait going through files from the office flood. Two things occur to me looking at this photo taken 20 years ago; 1) The passage of time no longer scares me as it once did. 2) I often forget how formative Scouting was. Scouting taught me to do a lot of uncomfortable, necessary things. There were parts of Northwestern New Jersey both mountainous and remote — where I did all the outdoorsy things like shoot, hunt, navigate, build a shelter, sail a boat, perform CPR, apply a tourniquet, etc. But the most important moment I recall was at my Eagle Scout “Board of Review” conference in January 2003 when the Scoutmaster/Counselor asked me a final question; what do I want to do with my life. I told him I didn’t know, but I went on a rant about the media. I recognized that the news-media portrayed events much differently than they existed in reality — that things were not as they seemed, and seldom as they should be. I wanted to do something about that. The counselor suggested in a serious tone that I should consider journalism. That was the first and only time anybody ever suggested that, and it stayed with me. A year or so later at 19 yo I founded the Rutgers Centurion, a monthly magazine. A year or so after that I started ambushing professors with a video camera, which was an extremely uncomfortable thing for an introvert to do, but like all the other things I learned in the woods, I felt it necessary. #ᴛʙᴛ"