What Makes A Great Leader?

At one point in our lives, we realize that our current version is demanding a greater version of ourselves. It questions our existing beliefs, asks multiple questions about who we are and what we can offer to the world and what actually makes a great leader. Then comes a day when we have to make a choice in between being a follower for the rest of our lives or to be a leader who walks in his own path. It is one of the most difficult questions that we all encounter once in our lives and in some way hold an incredible potential to shape our lives for the better.

Who are not leaders?

The word leader itself includes a word “lead”, which means leading a path or leading people in the right direction. But as of now most people, organizations, society have given a new definition to term “leader”. But is that suppose to be the definition of “what makes a true leader”? Let’s get into it in detail.

• Leader is not the one who is handling a team of bunch of people in some xyz organization.
  
  
• Leader is not the one who signs an agreement with the elite corporations to sell his soul at lowest price and gets dependent on them for fulfilling his life’s basic needs and desires.
  
  
• Leader is not the one who is a part of a never-ending hierarchy, where one desperately waits for his turn to crush other self-worth and inner voice, just to make themselves satisfied.
  
  
• Leader is not the one who despite knowing other individual is wrong, stays silent and lowers down his alter ego because he is afraid what other can do with their hierarchical power.
  
  
• Leader is not the one who lives in the caged box which is smartly designed by the elite corporations to boost their revenue for the cost of their blood and suffering.
  
  
• Leader is not the one who doesn’t act when hierarchical managers cut their pay, deliberately lower down their confidence and make them feel worthless and of no value.

“Listen you don’t need any one’s approval of who you are, no one has the right to downgrade your self-worth to undermine your self-confidence, to undervalue your existence, to overpower your intelligence, to control your own life, no one has the right.”

Who is a true leader?

True leader doesn’t exist in the outer world. It resides within us.

• A true leader is the one, who is awake in the sleeping world, where everyone is willingly following others and have sold their souls just to fit into the world of hypocrites.
  
  
• A true leader knows that the world is fooling him, big corporations, medias, govt, social channels, they all have their hidden motives—to use the time we have in our lives—to fullfill their vicious objectives.
  
  
• He is aware of the fact that this is the only life he has and he just can’t let anyone to overpower his existence, his inner emotions—the beauty he holds within himself.
  
  
• He is the one who understands what it likes to be a human—to be free at the moment.
  
  
• He understands the power of universe, nature, animal and how they all can help the earth in becoming a better place.
  
  
• A true leader walks on his own path—is assertive in his words and always empowers others in becoming the best version of themselves.
  
  
• He understands that, a small plant takes time to become a large tree, then it starts bearing fruits and give us shade without asking anything in return.

Similarly, when a true leader is awake in the unawake world, he starts seeing the horrendous truth of life, his inner world shatters, his innocence dies—people take advantage of his genuineness, honesty and he begins to realize that the world he used to think how it should be—is no longer the one— that’s what hits him hard and that’s what makes him an unstoppable monster or a true leader.

A monster who understands life and his own existence, more than anyone could possibly imagine. He is perfect blend of genuinity and monsterism and all credit goes to humans itself.