The following is about my previous MS life.   I need to remember that I was a person before my diagnosis.

I personally do not need the top student as my physician, rather it has been my personal experience that the guys who earn Bs and Cs tend to be better professionals than their "A" counterparts.

My knowledge of the B & C people tend to work harder at their craft than the very intelligent A student.  Not that the A student cruises, but the B & C person might work harder to innovate.

Professionally, I was an A performer because I constantly worked on my abilities.  I was getting more information from various sources, practicing and moving to new highs.

When I was a stockbroker in the 90s, I was doing the job, getting clients, gathering assets and building my business.   The internet had not bloomed yet.  People wanted things cheaper and higher service. 

One of my coworkers did something amazing at the time.  Remember Lotus 123 spreadsheets?  He made the spreadsheet link to the market.  He lasted 3 months, but I had the program.  I updated and massaged the file, personalized it and had an extra 2 hours of work every Friday to fax off portfolios. 

I am a B student getting A results because I did not stop improving.

I went to my manager looking for a new pricing idea.  He handed me a stapled group of documents that were full of dust.  i read it.  Thought about it.  And I pitched it to some of my best customers.

I was a stockbroker.  Make trades, earn commissions.  But would it not be nice that my clients and I wanted the same thing: Portfolio Growth.  The new program offered this idea.  Nobody else saw this vision.

I pitched my boss and he saw what I was doing and let me do it.  Recall, I was 24 and freshly married and the only limits I had were those which I placed on myself.  I sold people who had been in the business for 20 years.  They loved it because they were on a salary and everyone just wanted to help their clients make more money.  And get more assets from them.  Winner, winner.

I turned my branch into the biggest performer of this program in the United States.

Pretty good for a guy who graduated with a 2.2 gpa.