Choose Impact Over Impressiveness 🌟

6 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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A short monologue (YouTube) arguing that leaders should prioritize creating real impact over trying to be impressive. The speaker insists leading with "impressiveness" prevents true impact, and uses religious references (Jesus, John the Baptist) to argue for blunt truth-telling despite social cost. The message emphasizes attracting those who want truth and repelling those who do not.

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You have. Like, you can either be impressive or you can be impactful, but you're not likely to be both unless you're impactful first. If you lead with impressiveness, you will never be impactful. But if you lead with impactfulness, eventually maybe you'll be impressive. And if you're not, who cares? You change somebody's life, there's a level of transparency that's just beautiful. Jesus said, no man can come to me except my father. Draw him. You know what? People didn't like that. Well, guess what? It's 20, 24. People still don't like it. Like, tell the truth and let it lead wherever it leads, even if it means you end up like John the Baptist, having your head chopped off. And the people who don't like the truth, it will repel them. And the people who want to hear the truth, it will attract them.