Greetings to you, Dave Stahoviac here with the final lesson in this course on four benefits to seek in professional development. In this final lesson, the importance

of personal fulfillment. The next regular episode is coming on Monday, but first the conclusion of this course.

And it's also your final opportunity to apply for the Coaching for Leaders Academy,

since applications close this Friday, March 15th. You can apply at coaching for leaders

dot com slash academy. And if you want access to this audio course permanently, just set up your free membership at

coaching for leaders.com since the course will vanish here off the apps in the coming days.

Okay, here's the final lesson. This is where the course is going to take

a pretty significant turn, right on over into corn and soybeans.

When I was starting college at the University of Illinois,

they had an option for incoming freshmen

to take at least one course with a full professor that was limited to just a small

number of students.

This was a perk because most of the introductory courses at such a large university, either had hundreds of students in a

giant lecture hall with a professor, or if it was a smaller class, it was taught by a graduate student.

So the idea was to get incoming students closely connected with some top faculty right away.

By the time I got to register, the only course left in this program that would have fit into my schedule was a course in the agriculture school on

Introduction to Corn and Soybean Farming.

I quickly eliminated this as I was entering school as a computer science major and I concluded

that an agriculture course was a waste of my time.

I was talking through my registration choices with my dad and I remember him strongly encouraging

me to consider the corn and soybean course.

He said, you know nothing about, college is about, expanding your horizons, you shouldn't dismiss it so quickly.

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