Copper Wire Analogy

I found out the coolest thing today. I went out to lunch with an old boss of mine (who is trying to entice me away to basically take over his empire -- definitely tempting, believe you me). He is going to Stanford right now, doing their (I think) PhD program in Business. And he said he learned something in a class the other day that he shared with me -- and I wanted to share with you.

Apparently, if you take a fairly thick piece of copper wire and you bend it in 1/2, it's not that hard. But if you try to bend it back -- it's VERY hard.

That's because the process of bending the copper actually changes the molecular structure of the copper -- and it becomes stronger.

I think there is an analogy here to life, don't you? That "get bent, don't break, get stronger" thing?

Yeah, I thought so :-)