Interdependent Collective Improvement

When you realise that nobody is really good or bad and that we all contain positive and negative qualities, the effort is then to understand how we can improve as individuals and as a collective rather than blaming, attacking, and trying to "fix" others. We understand our own responsibility as individuals to reflect on our weaknesses and how to work with them and we recognise our responsibility towards others to bring the best out of them.

Educational Institution: What is Our Role ?

Are we failing as educational institutions? Should our role not be helping the young discover their strengths and passions and chase their dreams? Are we trying to sell our programs or trying to unlock human potential?

Intention of a Leader Determine's their Course

The intention by which an individual embarks on a leadership journey determines the type of leader they will become.
If their intention is beyond themselves (e.g. helping others, freeing other's from suffering, etc) they will become a selfless leader giving themselves up for the greater good. If their intention is their own success to be at the top, they will most likely sacrifice others' need to get their own.

Opposing Forces

Opposite forces when equal either produce a balance or idleness (no change).

Relationship Failure

People generally don't fail at relationships because they are inherently bad people or have bad intentions, but simply because they are bad at relationship management and emotional intelligence. The skill can be learned but it requires two other important skills which are self-reflection and openness. These two other skills if not inherently possessed are harder to learn but still possible.

Doing And Not Doing

To understand the significance of activities from checking Facebook, watching a movie or venturing on that business idea, ask yourself, what is the significance of not doing this activity. If there is no significance, it probably is not important - do something which its not doing has a significant impact.

Influence Can Be Measured

What can easily be measured is influence – how people influence others in terms of number of people in a movement, society or cult, changes in processes on a small scale and national and international policies and mass scale behavioral changes on a bigger scale. The effect of the influence can be measured in time in particular if it is a large scale change. What cannot be measured are concepts such as "wisdom" - although we may be able to attribute and categorise influence as a positive (constructive) or negative (destructive) quality. However the complexity involved in the effect of influence requires both spacial (systems perspective) as well as temporal (time). For example in some cases influence may have a negative attribute such as a coup resulting in a civil war in the short term but prosperity for people two generations later from toppling a ruthless dictator.