“With public sentiment, nothing can fail,” Abraham Lincoln said, “without it nothing can succeed.” Such a leader is inseparably linked to the people. Such leadership is a mirror in which the people see their collective reflection.

Progress is possible only when people believe in the possibilities of growth and change. Races or tribes die out not just when they are conquered and suppressed but when they accept their defeated condition, become despairing, and lose their excitement about the future. Norman Cousins

‘It is a peculiarity of man,’ he wrote, ‘that he can only live by looking to the future.’29 Historian Fred Polak was much influenced by this work and studied how images of the future had changed over the last few thousand years. His conclusion echoed Frankl’s, but at a larger scale: ‘As long as a society’s image of the future is positive and

The Do or Die Mindset: Key traits: Unflinching belief in yourself Fearlessness Results-Oriented

Those who would transform a nation or the world cannot do so by breeding and captaining discontent or by demonstrating the reasonableness and desirability of the intended changes or by coercing people into a new way of life. They must know how to kindle and fan an extravagant hope.