8 Unshakable Confidence
Sane leadership is the unshakable confidence that people can be generous, creative, and kind. Yet to develop unshakable confidence, we need to be grounded in faith, not casual beliefs.
Faith and beliefs are completely different. Beliefs are easy to acquire—so many folks out there are eager to tell us what to believe. We believe what we are told rather than experiencing things directly. Beliefs lack staying power—they come and go, and as they waiver, so do we. If we’re motivated by beliefs, not faith, we’ll give up when people disappoint us. We may have had a few revelatory moments of witnessing people’s capacities, but these vanish with the next disappointment. We lose confidence in people and ourselves. What was I thinking? ...
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