How useful my playing around endlessly in PowerPoint age 12 would be in a professional consulting environment.

How much you need other people to work on thorny problems where they know more than you do.

How many emails you get in a day.

How useful being a fast reader is because of the volume of material you have to read.

How many people that struggle with very fundamental IT skills.

How you can’t do “everything yourself” on a project of any meaningful size and scale.

How many adults across a range of professions that have truly no idea what they are doing.

How much PowerPoint and Excel are used in every organisation I’ve worked in.

How many meetings you have to attend.

How much of your success and opportunities are related to “who you know, not what you know”.