#427 How Raymond Plank Built a $50 Billion Oil Company

0:00The capacity of the human mind for learning and personal growth greatly exceeds that which I would have deemed plausible in my early years.

0:06The purpose of this memoir is to open the window of my life in the hope that readers may find parts useful in achieving a fuller measure of their own capacities to attain worthy goals on behalf of self and others in the certain belief that happiness and understanding uplift the human spirit, contributing to the base for a full and happy life.

0:26I look back through the years of my life from the vantage point of now being in my 90th year.

0:31I look back in order to see forward.

0:34Hindsight informed me of several primary individual lifetime learnings which might be useful to others, especially those who desire to expand the remarkable individual capacities granted us when we seek beyond self the greater common good.

0:50My values have been influenced by a few cornerstones.

0:53First, at perhaps the age of 10, when I was on a walk with my dad, he dropped my hand, put his arm around my shoulder, and noted, son, over my life I've found it very useful to try to make a very small difference on behalf of others.