I just returned from a business conference with some of my FBLA students. This year’s keynote speaker, Cary Trivanovich, had a very short and yet very different message compared to all the speakers I’ve heard speak at these conferences in the past, and there couldn’t have been any better time for the students to hear it. Most speakers seem to focus on improving yourself or motivating you to succeed.

The final words of his speech, “It is not about you.”
This post isn’t about the conference or my students, though. Rather, it’s …