on leadership
“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.”
Nikos Kazantzakis
Finding the values and principles you live by isn't always easy. Giving yourself opportunities to live by them and make them a default reflex can be brutally hard. But writing them down, sharing them with the people around you, having them do the same, and then all of you practicing coming together in loving, supportive presence, not to call each... See more
River Kenna • Destabilization & the Frequency of Values
The number-one-by-a-mile way that people avoid living their values is by going out into the world and telling everyone else how important those values are and how everyone needs to be living them.
River Kenna • Destabilization & the Frequency of Values
“I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.”
- Lee Kuan Yew, 2013
- Lee Kuan Yew, 2013
Anjney Midha • Tweet
The weird thing is that the word “leader” itself is cliché and boring, but when you come across somebody who actually is a real leader, that person isn’t cliché or boring at all; in fact he’s sort of the opposite of cliché and boring.... See more
Obviously, a real leader isn’t just somebody who has ideas you agree with, nor is it just somebody you happen to
David Foster Wallace on Leadership, Illustrated and Read by Debbie Millman
David Foster Wallace on leadership
A single, truly empowered individual can counterbalance the inertia of thousands who remain stuck in fear, anger, or shame.
That individual is Danny DeVito.
That individual is Danny DeVito.
Paul Staples on Substack
The role of art is to embody virtue