March 2026
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Content preview from 90 Days to Level Up Your Leadership
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Week 2Crucibles Shape Your Leadership
Benchmark goal: Identify your crucibles.
Most of the leaders I've interviewed were shaped by crucibles—the significant trials in their lives. Psychologist Abraham Maslow found that tragedy and trauma were the most important human learning experiences leading to self-actualization. Crucibles teach people that life is uncertain, and they have limited control. Through crucibles, you learn life's most difficult lessons: that life is not always fair and that bad things can happen to good people.
This new reality empowers individuals to challenge old assumptions and understand they must demonstrate personal agency to deal with their world. However, crucibles can launch people into despair, crisis, and doubt. During a crucible, pain and suffering may overwhelm you. If you bury your crucible—if you refuse to face it—it can bury you, too.
Your crucible can also catalyze a breakthrough in your life. When the façade of impressing the external world is stripped away, you become open to deeper introspection and a clearer understanding of your True North. With sufficient resilience, you can emerge from these challenges stronger and more authentic.
Everyone Has a Crucible
No one goes through life without experiencing serious challenges. In his 1953 play about the Salem witch trials, The Crucible, playwright Arthur Miller popularized the term. Warren Bennis says the crucible is an essential element in the process of becoming a leader.
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