anonymous  asked:

I didn't like [L/xa] and one of the reasons is because she betrays everyone, including Roan, when he brought Clarke as a prisoner to her and then she locked him up because of his mother's issues. I hate that she's always using excuses for her actions. Like Clarke said to her, she has no honor.

Correct. Same here. More damning than an angry Clarke saying she had no honor is a heartbroken Indra saying there was no honor in Polis.

I think L is an interesting character, but her actions were dishonorable. She betrayed her people on a regular basis and always has the excuse of “I did it for my people,” no matter what her people thought.

She was doing okay with that, I think, pushing their ideas of vengeance and alliance and justice and mercy… until TonDC, when she straight up made not the slightest effort to save her entire Coalition, and left them all for the bombs.

Was that REALLY for her people? Or was it to get rid of the people who could challenge her. Indra thought it was just war. You lose the battle to win the war…. and then she ended up sacrificing the sky people, too. She didn’t just run away from war (although yes she did both times,) she didn’t just let the bomb fall, this time she actually consciously chose to betray her allies. Which actually puts what happened at TonDC into greater suspicion. First she was willing to sacrifice a whole village unknowingly for the mission, then she wasn’t willing to let her armed and dangerous warriors fight a war they were itching to have, so she sold out the mission. That, my friend, is contradictory. Where there are contradictions, there are questions. Unless you’re a certain type of L fan who never questions L’s actions. They call that, “making hard choices.”

The hard choice I think she made  is, do I gain more power from conquering this enemy whose enmity has made me the leader of the world as we know it, or do I gain more power by getting rid of all who would challenge me and keep the enemy who keeps my people in fear. Clearly, that’s an interpretation. If you take L at her word, then you’re going to say it’s canon that she did it for her people. But if you recognize that L has a history of betrayal and lack of honor, then you would be silly to take anything she says at face value. And this is where my judgment of her character comes from.

The problem, I thought, is that she thought whatever made her power greater was for the greater good of her people. She conflated her political power with what was best for her people.

In Deuteronomy 17:14-20, God warned Israel's future kings not to accumulate horses, wives, and wealth. And He told them to write a copy of His law and read from it daily.

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"Immaginare" è un atto psichico consistente nella ricombinazione di ricordi. Non è possibile immaginare un concetto che non sia già presente nella memoria, ma è possibile combinare concetti esistenti in scenari nuovi. Per molti sarà impossibile immaginare una 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲, ma non sarà impossibile immaginare una macchina che fa buchi quadrati. Se vi chiedo di immaginare come sarà la vostra prossima esperienza al supermercato si affacceranno alla memoria ricordi di esperienze passate al supermercato che tenterete di ricombinare in una nuova versione della storia, probabilmente banale, tipo che nel futuro sono terminate le arance.

Immaginare cose nuove non è semplice. Per niente. Perché è molto facile rimanere inconsapevolmente intrappolati nella propria comfort zone, quel rassicurante spazio di pensiero costituito da ricordi di certezze. “Guardare al futuro” è intrinsecamente un atto che richiede tecnica, oltre che coraggio. “Immaginare il cambiamento” presuppone largo uso di pensiero laterale per non rimanere imprigionati nelle consuetudini del passato.

Alcuni manager in posizione di leadership faticano ad accettare idee altrui, idee diverse, idee innovative. Ebbene, non è strano. Rifiutare il diverso è la naturale risposta del sistema cognitivo. Non ascoltare, ignorare, evitare il confronto, è normale.

È 𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗲 il leader che prende sagge decisioni in base alla sua esperienza. È 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗲 il leader che, con fatica, dedica tempo all’esplorazione di differenti punti di vista, per quanto improbabili. “Ascoltare” non è un dovuto atto di gentilezza, ma uno sforzo di paziente valutazione e creatività il cui scopo è deragliare il processo cognitivo dai binari delle convenzioni per metterlo nelle condizioni di poter giudicare i possibili risvolti di un’idea bizzarra.

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I have not heard of the Clifton strengths assessment before, but I have tried other ones to determine my life career and who I really am. I was introduced to the Clifton strengths assessment by Professor Fortunato Pitaro for the first time in his class Leadership Development.

Before getting the Clifton strength finder exercise, I knew some of my strengths and acknowledged some of my weaknesses through life experience and reflections. I admit that my knowledge and awareness of my strengths were most of the time vague rather than clear and lacked a sense of ownership and honesty.

My five dominant strengths, according to the Clifton Assessment, are context, deliberative, achiever, learner, and competition.

Context means having a retrospective viewpoint, where looking back into the past is the key to understanding the present and preparing for the future. Whenever I look back, in whatever situation or experience I had, I almost always find answers in the past. For example, last year my cousin was consulting me about her daughter’s schoolwork and future career. She was wondering why her daughter is interested in being an actress instead of a dentist, and why the girl cannot study long hours. I explained to her that her situation is not surprising since she, since early childhood, used to take her daughter to friends and social gatherings and did not promote reading habits. On the contrary, they only used to watch shows and TV series. So, looking back into the past helps explain the present and reveal the future.

Deliberative means taking extra caution when making decisions, regardless of how much time is involved in following our preferred option. I always tend to be cautious when I take decisions. For example, at my job, as a jeweller, I facilitate the process of choosing, designing, and ordering custom-made jewellery for customers. Once I was helping design a family ring with several coloured stones and diamonds that represented the birthstones of each family member. In this case there were five stones, two diamonds, and one sapphire, aquamarine, and emerald. To get the perfect outcome for the customer, I facilitated communication between the workshop and the customer. Before submitting the final design to the workshop, I had another appointment with the customer to discuss the position of each stone, because I noticed that the customer wears other rings on fingers next to the family ring finger. I explained to the customer that due to differences in the hardness of each stone, some stones need to be protected more than others. The customer’s original order placed the emerald and aquamarine stones at the two sides, which would expose them to harder stones on the adjacent rings. So, I suggested we move these two soft stones to the middle and top of the ring and put the two diamonds on the two sides, since diamonds are rarely scratched. Thus, my vigilant thinking and solution prevented the soft stones from being scratched or broken.

Achiever means that I always want to complete tasks, and when I lack tasks and goals, I feel something burning inside me. As a jeweller, I always had many slow days with nothing much to do except wait for customers. On such days, I always created a team to-do list such as doing a cycle count for a section or a brand, reorganizing jewellery pieces in the windows and showcases, and making sure that we posted an interesting story on social media. Every day, I make sure to complete the highest priority task first and check it off when it is done. Then I have a small meeting with my team to discuss what we achieved and what is left and how much time we need to complete the work. This way I ensure that I achieve something regularly and in a timely manner.

Learner is a strength I know I possess. I always like to learn something new, whether it is related to my job or not. I like the process of learning as much as I like the knowledge, I get from it. All the knowledge I acquired in the jewellery business was based on the practical experience and self-learning and research I have had done. Last year, I enrolled in two GIA (Gemological Institute of America) courses and finished them, although my work does not require me to attain such certificates. Presently I am learning to improve my writing skills with a professional writing tutor.

Competition is the inner flame that fuels my motivation to win. In the last year of elementary school, I was the top student, but when I moved to high school, during my first year I ranked way down the list, maybe the tenth or eleventh. Although it was very hard for me to compete at the time, I did not give up. To improve my rank, I studied double or triple the time my peers spent studying. Despite getting second place, which was a significant improvement, I still did not feel satisfied, and I knew that burning fire inside me would not settle till I won and outperformed every single student.

Growth Mindset: A key to be successful in life

 Narayan Murthy, the co-founder of Infosys, was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He worked his way up through hard work.

 Indra Nooyi, the CEO of PepsiCo, was a mediocre student at IIM Calcutta, according to one of the faculty members there, but she reached such great heights in her career.

 Dhirubhai  Ambani, the founder of Reliance Industries, started his career as a dispatch clerk with a company in Yemen at the age of 16 years. He rose to such great heights, and created a big industrial empire, and became one of the richest men in the world.

 How all three above leaders grew to such heights when they had a very humble beginning initially? 

 They had, what Carol Dweck, author of Mindset calls, a growth mindset.

 All successful leaders have a growth mindset.

 What is a growth mindset? 

 A growth mindset is the understanding that one can develop his/her abilities and understandings(Mindset Works, n.d.). Those with a growth mindset believe that they can get smarter, more intelligent, and more talented through putting in time and effort.

 How does it impact success at work?

 A leader with a growth mindset sees failure not as a final thing but as a springboard to success.

 Carol Dweck, a world-renowned Stanford University psychologist, after decades of research, discovered the power of mindset.  She describes that there are two types of people in the world, one with a fixed mindset and others with a growth mindset.

 Those with a fixed mindset believe that their talent, intelligence, and creativity are unchangeable. Therefore, such type of mindset results in career stagnation.

 Those with a growth mindset believe that they can grow their knowledge, skill, and creativity through persistent effort. These individuals are great learners. They keep learning and keep growing in their lives.

 How can Executive Coaching help leaders with a growth mindset? 

 Leaders with a growth mindset are always willing to learn and grow in their skills, knowledge, and efficiency. It is because of their willingness to learn and grow that a one-to-one executive coaching or leadership coaching can help them tremendously.

 1. Leaders with a growth mindset want to take on higher responsibilities and wish to develop their executive presence, and this is where executive coaching can help them a lot.

 2. Leaders with a growth mindset want leadership skills development, and executive coaching can help in that. 

 3. Leaders who are entrepreneurs and have their start-ups need founder coaching, which is a part of executive coaching.

 4. Leaders who have a growth mindset want to increase their executive presence to take on higher roles and responsibilities and in that executive presence coaching, is a big help.

 5. Leaders who have a growth mindset and who are heading their functions or are CEOs of their companies face many challenges. So they need a qualified executive coach who can be their sounding board and asks powerful questions that may guide them towards solutions.

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