How to Stumble Toward Wisdom and Find Success | Leadership Freak

#1. Enjoyment:

The most surprising thing I notice about wise leaders is enjoyment. Nagging sadness and recurring anger speak to foolishness.

Wise leaders choose enjoyment that doesn’t include regret.

Fools choose happiness that eventually produces misery. Think of enjoyment produced by over-work, too much alcohol, or advantaging yourself at the expens

#2. Liking:

Wise leaders like people. Haters are fools.

Wisdom sees opportunity where fools see threat.

3 ways to stumble toward liking:

Focus on liking, not being liked. The need to be liked leads to enjoyment with regret.

Accept frailty. Everyone has weakness and frailty. Your job is to maximize strength and compensate for weakness. (Some people shoul

#3. Gentleness:

The wisest leaders I know are also the gentlest. Bravado is bullshit.

Harshness produces results with regret.

3 ways to stumble toward gentleness:

Think of words as hammers.

Listen and speak as if everyone around you is an 8-year-old kid.

Practice curiosity.

Gentleness in you enables boldness in others, but never think of gentleness as wea