Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

Love isn't always being gentle and soft #Shorts

5 May 2023 · 1 min

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A short monologue (likely a YouTube Short) on the nature of great leadership and empowerment. The speaker defines empowerment as feeling confident in one’s ability and encouraged by circumstances, emphasizes managers often train ability but neglect creating encouraging circumstances, and uses a parenting analogy—arguing love sometimes requires tough, corrective action—to illustrate cultivating others to be their best.

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Great leaders do not create lots of followers. Great leaders create lots of leaders. Great leadership empowers other people to be at their best. Feeling empowered is. It's a feeling you can't make someone feel someone. But empowerment is feeling confident in your ability and encouraged by your circumstances, such that you feel motivated and at liberty to fully devote your talents to a purpose. And there's two parts of that, right? There's confident in your ability and encouraged by your circumstances. Most managers are very good at causing people to be confident in their ability by, for instance, training them so they know what to do. But then they'd stop there. They. The second part is more important, which is creating encouraging circumstances. It's no different than you would for your son or your daughter. How do you encourage them? You care about them, you love them. You want nothing more than for them to be at their best. You want to challenge them. You don't let them just cruise along. Love isn't always gentle and soft, is it? If you have a daughter who's 13 years old and she comes home with a joint in one hand and a scotch in the other, you know, at three in the morning, you don't say, oh, sweetheart, I hope you had a nice night. You know, it's going to be a more difficult conversation. Because love means that you will not accept someone not being the best version of themselves.