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People who wear the “leader” label without putting themselves wholeheartedly into the act of leading are the posers of our modern world.
Don’t let yourself join their ranks.
That’s a nice, pithy list.
Not to complicate things, but I would add one thing:
10.5 – Ask, “Why ought it be done?”
I. I. Rabi, Nobel Prize–winning physicist and adviser to presidents, was once asked why he was a success as a scientist.
He said, “Growing up in Brooklyn, all of the immigrant families wanted their kids to do well in school. But my parents were different. They made me a scientist without knowing it, because every day after school, when the other parents would ask their kids what they learned in school, my mother would ask, Izzie, did you ask a good question today?”
That’s a nice, pithy list.
Not to complicate things, but I would add one thing:
10.5 – Ask, “Why ought it be done?”
I. I. Rabi, Nobel Prize–winning physicist and adviser to presidents, was once asked why he was a success as a scientist.
He said, “Growing up in Brooklyn, all of the immigrant families wanted their kids to do well in school. But my parents were different. They made me a scientist without knowing it, because every day after school, when the other parents would ask their kids what they learned in school, my mother would ask, Izzie, did you ask a good question today?”