Today, during practice with a President in training, we covered some of the coolest, complicated, and conflicted ground. We talked about the self inflicted, devasting death on his team. We talked about the power of the right emotion, to the right degree, in the right moment and thanked Aristotle for a good word from ancient history. We talked about George Washington and his famous moment of weakness that actually saved our upstart nation from itself. We all know about him crossing the Delaware and countless other bold moves on the field of battle. His Union saving moment of all moments, however, happend after the war when he pulled out his bi-focals for the first time in front of his mutineering men. Their response?
They wept.
Today, a President in the making learned the beauty in revealing all sides of himself, at the right time, to the right degree, to the right people. He learned we need our leader to be calm, consistent, convicted and real. Tough and tender. Tough and tender. Oftentimes strong. Sometimes weak. Real. Now you know why one of my stranger worldview, bolted on beliefs is “I want to feel life.” My mostly Germanic hard wiring doesn’t lend itself toward this direction naturally. My maleness default wiring tells me to hide my emotions when they might be perceived as weak. My experience tells me when I let my emotions flow I’ll lose control and I LOVE control.
Today, a President in the making learned there are no easy answers to the hard situations and unplanned circumstances that are our lives. He walked out, however, ready to deal directly with his heartache and reach his hand out, anyway. Good…
BUILT TO LEAD 