The one thing this coaching search has proved to me is that I’m old

You're just now figuring this out? You ARE old...

I'm 60 fwiw

I'm 46 going on 20. Does that help any?

The one thing I am noticing is that most of the posters have not been in large business negotiations or deal making that involves the emotional life aspects of a “key player”.

Think about a topic that you are an expert on. Now take that topic and when you hear the news media or general public comments on this topic, you laugh inside at how juvenile the comments are on this topic which you are an expert. Now think about that when you hear reporting about topics which you are not a subject matter expert, know there are details that are not interesting or too complicated and are left out of the report.

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Think about a topic that you are an expert on. Now take that topic and when you hear the news media or general public comments on this topic, you laugh inside at how juvenile the comments are on this topic which you are an expert. Now think about that when you hear reporting about topics which you are not a subject matter expert, know there are details that are not interesting or too complicated and are left out of the report.

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I think I've seen a very similar quote from Michael Crichton (I think that's who it was). Makes sense. Why do we trust the media on other topics in which we're not experts, after we just laughed at a bad article on a topic we know closely.