“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.