You can tell what leaders are like by looking at the people who have followed them for years. You see, clever and nice words sound good in the moment, and lots of people join a group because they like what they hear. But those who are closest to them, have been there for years, will know their leaders well enough to know if they want to stay. And if those followers are people you wouldn’t want to deal with, chances are so are the leaders.
I was born with the sum total knowledge of over two thousand years of my family’s history. I remember the fall of Albion with the same perfect clarity as I remember the lake we swam in this morning. There is one difference though. The lake is my memory. Albion is…a recording. All of the knowledge I have from before my birth is just data. My experiences since birth have made me not just knowledgeable but wise as well. Or at least wiser than when I was born.
I grew up on Minnesota Nice, where if you can’t say something good, you just don’t say anything at all. It’s a good idea, and works a lot more often than New Yorkers might think. You see we tend to avoid conflict, so if we disagree with someone, we often just don’t say anything. We aren’t agreeing with you when we’re silent, we’re being nice enough not to correct your dumb ass in front of your friends. I’m sorry. That wasn’t very Minnesota Nice, was it?
We all need to know what we want in life. If we just go through life, hoping something good will happen, we will always be hoping and very rarely receiving. If we plan and pursue that plan, if we enjoy the road to the end of that plan, then we will have a very good life. But before we can plan, we have to decide what is important to us. Sometimes it is an easy decision. Sometimes it isn’t. But that decision is the most important one we can make for our lives.
I’ve been a lot of places in my life. I grew up in the Boundary Waters, about as far away from a city as you can get in America. I’ve watched the New Year’s ball drop in Times Square. And I’ve done business with the banks on Wall Street. You know what I’ve found? It’s a lot easier for me to walk in those Ivory Towers than it is for them to walk on my gravel roads. They usually overshoot and hit the ditch when they try. We don’t encourage them tryin’ much.
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