Exceptional Leadership
Discipline yourself to influence people without hiding your true nature.
Every time I see the movie "The Silence of The Lambs (1991)" again, I feel like I’m integrating myself in a space full of a mystery that urges caution, self-analysis, temperance in decision-making, because I cannot deny this obsession: I attend a game of mask that is all the more appalling as it never leaves the sphere of rationality.
The enchanted essence of the world in which I feel lost, like a ship without a crew, harmonizes the macrocosm of an autonomous, sovereign human being, relatively independent of the social context that can always live alone, but always capable of destroying other destinies.
Through Hannibal Lecter, in the mirror of reality, is called the mysterious core of a nerve and substance world, in the high-class psychology of a metamorphosis of form and identity, like that from caterpillar to butterfly. We’re facing a type of sensitivity that appreciates the fragility and delicacy of a spontaneous gesture, but only until met with the contrary. He is not the man of change, but the change in man that begins with the psychology of an exile, and continues with the feeling of release from a captivity that was needed at some point, only to better reflect on the true cause of his rarely encountered illness, called "superlative persuasiveness."
Do you develop a consciousness that starts from an image and reaches the being it represents, starting from the idea that any true story is an endless story?
Some of the substance of a genius of evil can always be recovered by inventing a story with angels, the only situation that does not lead to a tragedy, an image of facts, things and words harmonized in an honest belief ideal that appeals to the younger humanist generation. And this story can become true at any point, continuing to "infinity", unless conscience urges it to bring its thoughts in the light of a spirituality consistent with science, and especially if it does not give it back.
The attributes of this stunning storyline that profoundly marks you through the power of evoking certain destinies that have been detached from sighs, are not the rhythm and cursivity of a life lesson to admire, but the intrigue of dramatic action circumscribed at a single moment of maximum tension: the suffering of a discovery late.
Psychology is the first thing in Hannibal’s life, but the pure fire of his soul is the purity of the very rare essence of humanity, the candor of the helpless being, who can make him transparent for his highest knowledge.
In Clarice Starling’s person we find the merciful rose, enchanted by a magician who sharpens its thorns with the mastery of a beekeeper and the consciousness of the essential unity of all things in the world, but without letting the thorns grow to the end, lest they hurt someone with a venomous sting. So, this rose is charming because of its beauty, but it can also be painful to harvest because of its spines. Take care at what temperatures you raise man’s sharpness of the mind that can put give greater meaning to the result of an action, rather than the barren guard of the letter of law.
Are you prepared to take away the blanket of uncertainty that covers your beliefs and cancels your belonging to the reference space of a character full of ambiguities to which you feel attracted to and want it to feel attracted to you?
Hannibal is not just a psychologist whose renown has far exceeded the domain’s notorious boundaries, from where the imperative necessity to find himself in permanent self-esteem, the desire to be considered the very experiment of a complex mind. But he is also a very good handler of reality beyond the silent walls of a quiet life surrounded by bars.
Clarice Starling seems to be a shy woman at first glance, but behind that femininity is hidden that purity of an honest and naive person, of unprecedented simplicity, driven by limiting beliefs that do not overwhelm and upset anyone, but only a mind liberated by false beliefs.
The only uncertainty that this sensitive being feels lies in not knowing what to choose: either to admire Hannibal for the genius mind he always gives proof of, or to reject him for the atrocity with which he imposes persuasive superiority. However, for the first time, Hannibal found his subject most difficult to be experienced by being drawn to her frail innocence.
How much can you be influenced by the personality of the person you are tempted to redefine yourself for in a relationship of respect for his unusual ability, if you cannot prove your sensitivity to perceiving the echo of his presence in the reality that surrounds you?
Hannibal’s entire personality is revealed as the magical essence of the core of a world that is hard to access, as the creation of an Ego in which no one can penetrate, passed as if by a push of limits in the mirror of a moral metamorphosis. Practically, self-activity does not just mean going through an initial pathway through which a new conception is maturing about the representation of human forms, but can also provide a more accurate, almost naturalistic representation of death itself.
Death seen at every turn is no longer a particular entity, a question of the effect of a very disciplined and inventive character, but a need to insist on a fact devoid of foreshadowing.
By turning the events in the opposite direction of the expectations of each person in relation to the perceptions of sensitive things, often receiving a nuance of amplification of the state of anxiety, one can compute a new formula of cohabitation: the only way to keep your reason to exist intact is to break your soul into various special powers, including the power to be vulnerable and the power to be different than your nature allows.
When Hannibal lures his victim in the spider web of uncertainty to devour it from any life expectancy, blocking any affection, he basically does not gather all his intelligence in a single moment of inspiration. But rather expects the victim to discard everything that cannot be present in the illusion of his life.
Here is the splendor of a psychic fact of deep knowledge of feelings, which cannot be qualified as good or bad in terms of the results of research in the field of psychology.
Do you expose yourself to a life experience that begins with the intensity of excitement that somebody conveys to you in a particular circumstance and ends with a goodwill attitude (shown without restraint) that asks you to distance yourself from your own reality?
Diplomacy and reason based on adaptability to the conditions of the "random" feed you, care for you and instruct you towards the best behavior in society. So, do not start experimenting on a particular opponent unless you are blinded by vanity, ignorance, your righteousness, passing any activity through the prism of the extremes of "all or nothing".
Hannibal is a symbol of everything: he is dominated by the feeling of littleness to change every destiny and has the psychological means to make any conversion of man to another order of understanding life, in other forms, subtler, more strongly felt than physical pain.
Let us remember the Greek hero, Oreste. He enters the world of madness after the crimes committed in the name of avenging his father (Agamemnon), infernal deities forcing him to wander from one place to another, prey to delirium. He shares with his sister, Electra, the feeling that he already belongs to a universe of horror.
"You are already one among the dead", Electra replies, and his uncle Menelaus has, in front of Oreste, the feeling of seeing a show from the other world. Orestes answer is: "I am not alive, even though I see the light."
Throughout this dialogue, entirely focused on the subject of madness and horror, there are the aspects of reality that govern the world around Hannibal. He does not signal his presence in people’s lives as an intruder that interrupts regular flows of pure consciousness. But in a very subtle way, like a discreet vibration, providing that extra intelligence which draws its victims. Once caught in the spell of this mysterious magician, they are constantly forced to face the thought of death, the most profound anxiety.
Leadership is the ability to manifest your intellectual power in the sphere of other people’s destiny, without releasing the satisfaction of the passion of feeling good in front of their lack of defense.
Exceptional Leadership refers to the unseen part of the man of genius who does not have to stay exactly like that, like a closed door in relationship with the world of outward appearances. But should always emerge as a diamond with miraculous features that is polished along with his passage through the life of all who know how to appreciate him and "recommend" him further.
Genius is not the very sharp intelligence that you are trying tirelessly to show yourself to other people to make a reputation spread in a great deal of events. But it is the privilege to feel and cancel that emotion that encompasses you and chains you in its grip, called: unbalanced ambition or vanity.
