Perhaps that's because someone like me has spent a lifetime studying and learning new stuff. I have about an inch of qualifications, none of which I have ever used. Experience wise, I've been everything from a headhunter for CEOs to a casino dealer.

What I didn't realize until my mid-60s was how much status and sucking up to people mattered. It didn't matter how much I improved my skills, the fact that I would point out something that I felt dishonest invariably worked against me.

When I recently said I've earned very little in my life, I immediately got told to improve my skills. Yet, in my time, I've programmed mainframe computers, designed websites, edited books for publishing houses, been a screendoctor for a movie, written and been published for 60 years, designed and made clothes for women, got 100% for my make-up and cosmetic exam, and much more.

The problem was never about bettering my skills. It was simply that I never sought status, and my social skills were terrible. I just tended to read my book rather than be part of the conversation...

So I think that's why you get it.