A couple of years ago I read an article in which a survey was given to many people. It asked them "What is important to make you feel good about your life. 85-90% replied pretty much the same answer. "To do my work, and enjoy my family and friends." Seemed pretty simple but I always wondered what the other 10-15% answered, if at all. So after pondering it for a year of more, I think Ive come up with a resonable answer.
First lets split the 85-90% to call it 87.5% want the same thing. Then throw out about 2.5% for the total nut jobs who want to be god, or somethig else, or are too fucked up to answer at all. That leaves 10%. So if 85% just want to do their jobs, and enjoy life, what COULD the others want? Then it it me...They want to be 'Leaders', or more exactly they want 'power'. Therin lays the problem. Just wanting to be a leader or hae power does not necessarily mean that one will be a good leader, or use the power wisely. I seem to recall an old native american saying..."The blind lead the blind and all fall in the ditch."
Look at DC.
Real leaders seldom seek to lead. They just do their job sell and move to the front naturally. I'rn a stonemasonry contractor. Started as a laborer, with no interest in being a boss, I just wanted to be the best laborer I could. So I got promoted to labor foreman, then apprentice mason, then mason, then crewleader. Finally I started my own business, but I never sought to lead.
Now, when I look at the so called leaders, Im amazed, and embarrassed. All of them, both sides, all sides. The blind, leading the blind, into the ditch.
I walk my own path, and dont need anyone to 'Lead' me.
Mabey their should be a test adminstered in the 3rd grade to pick out all potential canidates who 'want' to become leaders, and put them on a remote island together, and let them lead each other.
First lets split the 85-90% to call it 87.5% want the same thing. Then throw out about 2.5% for the total nut jobs who want to be god, or somethig else, or are too fucked up to answer at all. That leaves 10%. So if 85% just want to do their jobs, and enjoy life, what COULD the others want? Then it it me...They want to be 'Leaders', or more exactly they want 'power'. Therin lays the problem. Just wanting to be a leader or hae power does not necessarily mean that one will be a good leader, or use the power wisely. I seem to recall an old native american saying..."The blind lead the blind and all fall in the ditch."
Look at DC.
Real leaders seldom seek to lead. They just do their job sell and move to the front naturally. I'rn a stonemasonry contractor. Started as a laborer, with no interest in being a boss, I just wanted to be the best laborer I could. So I got promoted to labor foreman, then apprentice mason, then mason, then crewleader. Finally I started my own business, but I never sought to lead.
Now, when I look at the so called leaders, Im amazed, and embarrassed. All of them, both sides, all sides. The blind, leading the blind, into the ditch.
I walk my own path, and dont need anyone to 'Lead' me.
Mabey their should be a test adminstered in the 3rd grade to pick out all potential canidates who 'want' to become leaders, and put them on a remote island together, and let them lead each other.
