Old Title: Idealism, Leadership, and You
New Title: Idealism, Leadership, and Me
Why is idealism viewed by many to be a threat? It is. It is perceived to contain some sort of virus that will break the status quo – as if breaking the status quo is a bad thing.
Maybe that’s the fundamental paradigm shift that needs to be made? The thought process that happens when one thinks that breaking the status-quo is a bad thing, that thought process needs some massaging and exercise. It needs a good diet and some vitamins. It needs a new inspiration. It needs to shed it’s old views and start anew. That doesn’t mean that parts of the old views will not form parts of the new views. It does mean that rebuilding needs to happen.
Why?
I am often engaged in conversations or near conversations that revolve around feelings and gut reactions. I rarely see actionable results come from those conversations. It takes a fundamental paradigm shift to turn those conversations into something valuable (other than the relief that we all feel when we vent – that is healthy in some regard, but not really that much of a catalyst towards changing life for the better). So, rebuilding – versus venting and adding-on – is a better way to construct an action plan to get things done.
Is it the best way? I don’t know. I do know that everyone has pieces of idealism in the way that they think. We all have ideas that we think would make something better. That is idealism, because we think that we can make change happen. But, I’m talking bigger. I’m thinking bigger. I’m talking about engaging our brains and our intellects to solve harder problems and get those harder problems to become easy and simple things that everyone just takes for granted.
Why would anyone want to work on such things, knowing that it’s tons of work and rarely gets recognized at the time, and has lots of opposition, and (me, me, me, me, me…) – - because this is not about you. It’s about a society that can be improved and can be made better, and can be so – with effort, and a breaking of the status-quo, and a revitalized and energized batch of thinking, and applying some idealism, and rejecting some doubters, and being a leader.
Where I am today it’s rainy and cool and gray. There is time to think and reflect and to write. This is still not concrete enough. This is still vague. This is still not disciplined enough. Those things will come more with experience and time. I have time. I’ll get more experience. Now, I’m going to go change the subject of this post.
This post was inspired by this post @ Slow Leadership.
Filed under: Inspire
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