CHAPTER 6
Leading the Leader that Is You
Your time is limited. Don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of another’s opinion drown your inner voice.
—STEVE JOBScofounder, Apple Inc.
We lead our lives through conscious or unconscious choices. By choosing to remain unconscious to our inner states—how we think, feel, perceive, react, our buttons, biases, what drives us, what shuts us down—we choose to allow ourselves to become unduly influenced by external controls from the media, authorities, institutions, and leaders, leading to diluted, if not toxic, thinking and subsequent lame, if not destructive, decisions.
Why is being self-aware so important? ...
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