Reading the case about Magdalena Yesil brought home a lot of the things that I am reading and learning about in Hoffman's The Start-Up of You. Hoffman talks at great length about how a person's career must be viewed as a business if it is to achieve the kind of success the individual would like to enjoy. In this case, I got to see how some of Hoffman's principles apply to reality and how effective they can be. Yesil never took a position and just stagnated, like a failing business. She was constantly striving for more knowledge, more external insight, and more opportunity. Treating her career like a business lead her to incredible success.
I also liked how the Yesil case, at least in my interpretation of it, coincided with Sister Dew's remarks about integrity. It seemed to me the Magdalena was true to herself and what she stood for. She didn't care much about what people had to say when she was young and determined to move to the US and pursue a career there. What an important lesson for everyone to learn. In the end you really only have to answer to yourself and God; others are probably just concerned about the temporal implications of your actions. So as long as you personally are okay with a particular decision and you are also willing to discuss it honestly with God, it's probably an okay alternative.
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