“Born with talent but raised with humour, humility and good manners.”
The sentence describes Marco Simoncelli in an article by Matt Roberts, BBC Sports blog. Marco died recently in a motorcycle racing accident.
The phrase “with talent, but with humour, humility and good manners” is music to my ears. I wish this kind of music to be associated with leaders and leadership.
I wish for leaders who are at once both humble and bold.
How could it be so?
The Way of the Leader
We are born into talents.
They do not belong to us.
We are a vessel of their expression.
Our minds are visited by an idea that is there, somewhere, in the universe, available to be known.
We are simply the vehicle of knowing and not the knowing or the knower.
Our voices carry a melody that even tiny birds can sing.
Like the bird, we did not create the song, nor do we think the idea into existence.
No Me, My, Mine.
Be bold because the idea chose you and you owe it your boldness, your passion.
Be bold because you can lead.
Be humble because the idea does not belong to you.
Be humble because you did not create the leader in you.
[Simoncelli's] final act was a lap and a half of pure adrenaline, swapping positions with Alvaro Bautista, a familiar foe, with trademark panache and derring-do. Riding on the edge, the only way he knew, delighting in his own impudence and improvisation, revelling in the one act he loved the most.
While I differ about being born with talent as a leader. I do believe leaders ought to be humble no matter what, because whether it is innate talent or developed talent we are never really self made.
There are a lot of people who helped me get where I am at today.
Alex – It’s always nice to see a so-friend here. Essence is the word that most fits what I’m trying to capture. We don’t create it, much as the rose doesn’t create it’s essence. Simply put, It Is. It exists. It is our obligation and a driving force in our lives to express our essence in concrete ways that makes a difference. I think that is what we spend our life doing and that for which we search, until we find a way, or many ways. James Hillman’s book The Soul’s Code expresses these concepts extremely well. It is a book I read and think of often.
I have been thinking about this all week, especially in relationship to my personal life journey.
When clients sing my praises, or I have a particularly productive day of course its a great ego stroke. And I have to admit that sometimes the wisdom that comes out of me or the skill and capacity that I sometimes notice makes me sit up and think “Wow that was gooood!”
BUT I’d be a fool to take the credit. When I reflect on the various events, circumstances, and happenings that call and lead me to grow and my true essence to be revealed; how can I take the credit… if it were up to me I would have written a completely different script. I could never engineer everything or anticipate what I need to learn before life creates the opportunity for me to learn it.
I’m so grateful to God, Life, Love; for faithfully providing me with everything I need to keep being and becoming me:-)
Great Great Post! Thanks so much Anne
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Dion – Thank you for stopping by to share your experience. I think we can take a smidgeon of credit for being open to what is being offered,
Great website title. I am headed over there to take a peek.
Thank you Anne. Very early days for the website so, please, stop by often. ‘see’ you soon:-)
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Thank you for your very thought provoking post.
My initial thought was that an idea visits our conscious mind from our unconscious rather than the universe. But then I started to think about Jung’s collective unconscious and the work of Sheldrake. So then if the universe includes the collective unconscious perhaps it is right to say that we channel ideas from the universe.
I’ll keep thinking!
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