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Self-Leadership

No one is going to remind you to get to know yourself

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Being forced to change is always the worst time to get to know yourself.

(If you were to, for example, lose a high-paying job out of the blue)
You will operate from a scarcity mindset, seeking the minimum amount of self-understanding that secures the next job, and will prioritize the utmost transactional approach. A scarcity mindset is the enemy of expansion and imagination. The ability to maintain a healthy space of thinking (in the face of externalities) is at the center of the steadiness that leadership and inspiration ask for.

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