6 search results for "William Deresiewicz"
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Solitude and Leadership
If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts
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finding yourself through solitary work and concentration
Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people’s ideas, or memorizing a body of
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discovering what you believe by articulating it to a friend
So solitude can mean introspection, it can mean the concentration of focused work, and it can mean sustained reading. All of these help you to know
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jumping through hoops
… great kids who had been trained to be world-class hoop jumpers. Any goal you set them, they could achieve. Any test you gave them, they could pass
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courage to think things through for yourself
That’s what Emerson meant when he said that “he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men,
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principle-driven work vs. personality-driven performance
principle-driven work: when thinkers or public figures focus on advancing the substance of their ideas and acting as servants to the philosophy they
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