Asish: Can I Learn To Be A Leader?

    • Asish Singh, class XI, St. Augustine's Day School (Barrackpore), West Bengal
    • Publish Date: Dec 2 2019 1:00PM
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    • Updated Date: Dec 2 2019 1:00PM
Asish: Can I Learn To Be A Leader?

You can’t. There is no answer to the “how”, sadly. So, stop reading lest you end up broken-hearted. I don’t believe that anybody should attempt to be a leader. It’s because of a certain trait that you’ve inculcated within yourself, or a certain level of observation, a certain experience or insight, you are able to see something… that most cannot. Now, when you can see certain things that others cannot, they will simply make you their leader, it’s that simple. There are various ways to lead – you can get elected or selected or you can pull other people down or you may simply work it out. Simply, people will put you on a pedestal because of qualities they don’t possess.

So what's leadership? Once you sit on a perch, you can see better than others, otherwise you’ll end up making a ridiculous fool of yourself. But how does one get to that perch? Just the fact that you want to see something, not because you consider yourself to be above the others.

There isn’t any particular quality of a leader. Just that his sense of life is beyond himself. When somebody leads the rest, it signifies that he/she is willing to think, feel and act for more people than himself. The others are self-centred. When you’re a leader, you’re managing a thousand minds. Know this... Why should thousands surrender themselves to you and be regulated? When you can control your own mind (which MOST cannot), only then can you control other minds. Leaders who cannot control their own minds end up leading just by chance – such a leadership is synonymous with anxiety (medical science proves this). Such people aren't leaders, they may be called managers.

A great leader is made when he can provide the opportunity, freedom, love, support and discipline  to his fellows so that they may achieve what he/she could not! A leader makes sure that in times of crisis, they all suffer a little rather than a few suffering a lot.

Being a leader demands sacrifice for others. We call them leaders because they choose to go first, because they take the risk before anybody else does, because they will choose to sacrifice so that their people may gain, so that their people are protected. And when we do, the natural response is that our people will sacrifice, for us. They will give us their blood, sweat and tears so that their leader's vision may live and come to life. And when we ask them why would they even do that, they say, “Because they would’ve done it for me.”

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