My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.
One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.
I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.