Lead Others

A leader is not their position or their role. True leadership has nothing to do with your position in an organization. There are plenty of people who provide leadership without any sort of title. On the other hand, I’m sure we can all think of people in leadership positions who don’t exert much leadership at all. 

Second, a leader isn’t someone who is simply good at their job. You might be the best accountant, salesperson, barista, computer engineer, plumber, or any other job. That tells us that you’re really good at whatever skill it is that you work at. But it doesn’t tell us if you’re a leader.

True leaders are different. They’re something more than the sum of their skills or their job title.

In his classic book The War of Art, the writer Stephen Pressfield takes on the question of why we often don’t do the things we know we should, or even the things we want to. 

I think he put it best when he wrote, “Most of us have two lives. The life we live and the un-lived life within us.”

He ascribes that problem to what he calls resistance.