Victor L MidyettVictor Midyett learned about the importance of saying what you mean and meaning what you say at his mother's side in India while she and Vic's father faced the many cultural challenges of being missionaries, she a city girl from Brooklyn, New York, ad he a farm boy from Tennessee. He grew up having to adjust to the challenges of being understood when attending ?12 different public schools, boarding schools, and correspondence school courses ?in five different? countries, language structures, and? educational systems. Learning how to translate and communicate precisely (and hopefully quickly) meant he could more or less adapt and survive in whatever country and culture he lived in. As an adult in Australia, he began working in the sales profession, where he was often forced to make use of what he had learned about identifying the difference between what a person said he wanted and what he actually wanted. After Vic married Shirley - or Jake, as he calls her - he was faced with another challenge, of learning to help her translate what she was saying in "American" into "Australian." His "Missionary Kid" stories of growing up in India have been published on the weblog Moristotle & Co., and many of his childhood memories were recounted in a book about his father, JT: ANOTHER MIGHTY MIDYETT, by his cousin Randy Somers. Learning to help himself and others to be honest and straightforward, both verbally and in writing, has given Vic great satisfaction in life. His favorite quote is an example of how he strives to live his life, with others and within himself: "Truth does not alter according to our willingness to accept it." Read More Read Less