I'm the hero that my mother warned me about. I always laughed when she warned me about the wrong kids because I was the ring leader.

I enjoyed this post that you wrote. Contrarian thought is very good. It's a kind of discipline that happens in construction all of the time. We argue, curse, curse each other, blame, cat call, howl and it would seem deliberately try not to work together to achieve results. As intense as our arguments are in the time span of 3 minutes we accomplish more than a carefully orchestrated meeting does. It's brute force and will arguing with reality and then, poof, we have accomplished a better product than someone else who gave up years ago and never pushed through.

Once while finishing concrete on a very hot day my uncle pointed out that I was finishing the surface of the sidewalk too nicely in one small area and that I had 300 more feet to do. He said, "We may loose that battle but we have to win the war." I learned to quickly master the surface in waves of rough to smooth.