Reg Stewart… a good friend of mine … and highly respected 
Do you remember the 1990’s news stories about Judge Sol Wachtler, former head of the New York State Court of Appeals, who hit the wall personally and ended up in jail himself? Judge Wachtler fell from the fast track and peaks of public power, into despair that comes from low intrapersonal intelligence fuel tanks, and his plummet describes many people who move forward in some intelligences and fall behind in personal intellectual growth.
In public ... the judge was esteemed and respected… In private … he was battling bipolar disorder … darting from one doctor to another … getting dangerously wrong medications … and suffering increasingly in his ability to cope … let alone become somebody others respected. Then, when the nation learned about his darker side, in 1992 he was arrested. The public saw the judge’s threatening letters to a former mistress and he was imprisoned for nearly a year. Do you know people who suffer silently in inner places where you’d hoped they could find inner well being and calm to grow personal skills similar to their public skills that others admire.
Today, Judge Sol Wachtler seems to have rebuilt a deeper and more ethically sound inner life … and acts now as a mental health advocate … . He draws lessons from his old life to help others avoid the intrapersonal falls he took.
Some say that the judge’s stint in prison … and his undiagnosed manic depression… brought both failures and success.... It seems his later keen attention to intrapersonal health … won Judge Wachtler finer results that my friend Reg Stewart speaks of as ... becoming the person you’d like others to see in you…. How about you?
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