-: When I was a student at Ball State University
years ago, I had a mentor.
His name was Professor Herb Hamilton.
And he said to me, he said you know,
success is 98% perspiration,
and it's only two percent all else.
And what that means is is that you have to work
and you have to work hard.
If you're gonna be good and successful in what you do,
you have to be able to put the time
and effort in it that it takes.
And if you want to be a trial level judge
and you want to have that awesome responsibility
that comes with it, you gotta be prepared to work.
It's just not a nine to five job by any means.
Essentially it's a 24/7 365.
I've had many occasions where I've had emergencies
that I've had to get up at two and three in the morning
and go in the hospitals and sign emergency orders
with respect to emergency commitments
and that sort of thing.
People need to be, if they want to pursue a career
along these lines, they need to be aware of that, I suppose.
But it's like almost anything that you do in life.
If you want to be good at it, like Herb Hamilton said,
it's 98% perspiration, it's two percent all else.