For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected]. Fact Check:. Follow Brad on Twitter Have a fact check suggestion? These words, as well, were most certainly meant in jest, but they also contain a deeper message, one of the most important for life in general.
At this moment, I am beginning a leadership coaching relationship with a new client. Here are a few of the places my reflection leads:.
Instead of looking for models and traits to emulate, we should focus on finding our true nature and on becoming the person we were meant to be. A veritable leadership journey is one of self-exploration and self-understanding. Successful leaders have a wide variety of styles and personality types, but they always have the clear self-knowledge that comes from profound personal reflection.
Through reflection, we come to see with increased clarity our core beliefs, our passions and our values. There is a fundamental reason why self-knowledge forms the basis for all effective leadership. It is only through an ongoing examination of our core values and principles that we can make coherent decisions, and learn to speak authentically about why we do things the way we do.
Whenever I begin this process anew, I am think about who my most successful past clients have been. The conclusion that I always arrive at is that the most effective leaders I have coached—or seen, or read about—tend to be those who make their journey of self-discovery a lifelong learning process.
These people are not always the most brilliant or creative of my clients. Rather, they are those who use what I teach to embark on the road to self-discovery and self-expression. It may have facilitated the later construction of the quotation. Many thanks to adept researcher Bodhipaksa who told QI about this citation.
The first strong match located by QI was disseminated via the Usenet discussion system in December The words were appended to the end of a message posted to a newsgroup used primarily by residents of the Netherlands.
The statement was enclosed in quotation marks signaling that it was already in circulation; also, no attribution was specified: 4. Oscar Wilde did write several remarks about identity and appearance that were thematically related to this quotation, but the perspective was different.
Boldface has been added: 5. The central thesis of the novel was the disjunction between the outward appearance of an individual and his or her internal thoughts and feelings. During one scene the character Basil Hallward criticized his friend Lord Henry who responded with humor: 6. Your cynicism is simply a pose. Wilde suggested there was a complex relationship between masks and candor: 7. Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. The following passage is from the new chapter fifteen during which Dorian Gray attended a party: 8. Certainly no one looking at Dorian Gray that night could have believed that he had passed through a tragedy as horrible as any tragedy of our age. In one scene the character Sir Robert Chiltern asked Mrs. Cheveley whether she was an optimist or pessimist. She replied that she was neither and that both stances were merely poses.
Chiltern continued with another question: 9. Sir Robert Chiltern: You prefer to be natural? Mrs Cheveley: Sometimes. But it is such a very difficult pose to keep up. Most people are other people. In a thematic match from Thomas Merton was published, and in an exact match appeared as noted previously. An instance of the saying attributed to someone named Gilbert Perreira was included in a webpage filled with quotations at abazoo.
The date on the page suggested that the quotation was recorded on September 8,
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