What I’ve Learned: Phil Jackson

Your problems never cease. They just change. I tell the kids that they're not going to be adults until they're twenty-eight, because they're playing a boys' game. It delays their maturation. There's so much input. It's hard for them to focus. I use the illustration of them going down the highway at eighty miles an hour, eating McDonald's, with their iPod in their head and the sound turned up so loud that they can't hear anything, and then they drop something on their lap, a gob of mustard or ketchup. And they look down, and when they look back up, there are all these red lights ahead of them -- that's how their life is going on, it's just so much activity going on at one time. My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term "true Christian." He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace. I think that my carriage and my demeanor are very much what the image of my father was like.  ... [link]