James Altucher has a popular post today on leadership. I follow his writing. He is often eccentric and weird to read. But this post is a gem.
Here are my favorite parts of the post:
- I totally agree with him that the most important part about leadership is caring more about other people’s success than your own (in Section A of his post). If you walk around trying to figure out how to help others be as successful as possible, the outcome can’t help but be wonderful.
- I am a big believer also in the principle of gratitude (in Section C of his post). Grateful people are happy. Grateful people are positive and don’t complain as much.
- I love, love, love Section E of his post. It is all about removing safety barriers in life to live bigger:
- “Imagine all the things we do as buffers for pain. We might avoid going to the store because we don’t want to run into the people who cause us pain. We might hide some numbers because we don’t want investors to think we are bad CEOs. Soon, everything in our lives we might think give us pleasure (because we are now avoiding all the pain) are actually just buffers against pain and change. When you can get rid of the buffers against pain and change life becomes more insecure, but we become FREE. We live in a bigger world, a world where risk and beauty go hand in hand and we are no longer afraid of the underlying pains.”
- Find the real reason behind people’s actions (in Section G of his post). I have written about this before too.
- Great quote on how to lead day-by-day (in Section H of his post). “All you have to do is check the box on progress. Progress compounds every day into enormous Abundance.”
- Persistence is a key ingredient of success, along with competence and working on something meaningful as I have written before. “Don’t do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.” (in Section I of his post)
It was a great read today, and it resonated with many of the same experiences I have shared in entrepreneurship.
What were your favorite parts of the post? What other leadership lessons would you add to his list?
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