If you want a job done well, on time, with accountability and no excuses, you had best hire someone who has faced a few limit situations. He or she alone has the discipline, the punctuality, the positive self-image, and the persistence to do a good job. If you want the opposite, hire someone who has been coddled, been given “I Am Special” buttons for doing nothing special, and had all his or her bills paid by others, and whose basic egocentricity has never been challenged or undercut.
