The World Doesn't Need More Thought Leaders
"The problem with America is that all the initiates are initiators" - Robert Bly
Evan Meyer • The World Doesn't Need More Thought Leaders
These days everyone wants to be a leader before they've been led.
Everyone wants to guide before they've been guided.
Everyone wants to teach before they've been taught.
We're surrounded by voices that have never been tempered by fire, never been reduced to ash, never spent time in the depths learning what it means to be reconstructed by life itself.
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Everyone wants to guide before they've been guided.
Everyone wants to teach before they've been taught.
We're surrounded by voices that have never been tempered by fire, never been reduced to ash, never spent time in the depths learning what it means to be reconstructed by life itself.
T... See more
The World Doesn't Need More Thought Leaders
Thought-leaders spend their entire lives running from their initiatory fires, avoiding the ash, and living in denial of their own depth. That’s what makes them so shallow.
Wisdom keepers learn recognize the invitation into immolation when it comes. They know that the fire isn't trying to destroy them - it's trying to reveal them.
Wisdom keepers learn recognize the invitation into immolation when it comes. They know that the fire isn't trying to destroy them - it's trying to reveal them.
Evan Meyer • The World Doesn't Need More Thought Leaders
The majority of these “thought-leaders” are in reality performing an act of “self-improvement” or “spirituality.”
They they either had yet to cross their own threshold or have been unable to totally accept that they need to at some point.
And with that, they had yet to taste all the pains of that life, moving through the easy path.
But sooner or later, everything they have built on that path will come crashing down.
We're trying to claim wisdom without being willing to be transformed by it first. We're trying to guide others through territories we've only read about in books or heard about in podcasts.
But real wisdom keepers?
They carry the marks of their initiations. You can smell the smoke on them from the fires they've walked through.
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But real wisdom keepers?
They carry the marks of their initiations. You can smell the smoke on them from the fires they've walked through.
Their words carry weigh... See more
Evan Meyer • The World Doesn't Need More Thought Leaders
By over-compensating and over-reaching your role as a “teacher,” an entrepreneur, you delude yourself into thinking that you are wise, but in reality, you do not have the depth, the perspective, or the experience to fill the words that you speak with any real vitality, any magic.
They are dead words, platitudes, shared for the sake posing as a “leader,” when really you are just as lost as everybody else.