Romulus' Victory
Masterfully dose your leadership, to reach to people’s consciousness and change them.
For the first time in their lives, Eliot and Romulus, father and son, are face to face, hating one another as poison. Romulus had carefully planned his every move. He sat down at a table, turned his head towards the old man and gazed at him, stubbornly fixing his eyes on the old man’s wrinkled profile. He concentrated all his power into his stepfather’s eyes, as if the fire of his eyes could make a hole in his skull.
All kinds of scenarios were invading Eliot’s mind. To what extent is it possible for all his imagined scenarios to happen? To a little extent? Sometimes, it is useful to have a clear picture of the true disaster, because it can give you a clear image of the true disaster, the necessary confidence to take risks. The truth is that Romulus was used, being trained from early childhood in espionage activities and in all his dirty actions. But the worst thing was that he killed Remus, Romulus’ brother and his second son.
Romulus still had him in front of his eyes, deliberately imitating all his gestures. Coherence, order and a source of motivation were behind this imitation of gestures, tics and silence. Eliot was discouraged and ready to give everything up. After all, he was a crazy old man who had forgotten his son. But he was still the head of CIA, being quite skilled and agile in thinking. He didn’t want to let himself seized by panic. In an effort to control himself, he tried to imagine things in the best possible light. But he had no idea how evil and patient could Romulus be.
Finally, psychologically defeated by Romulus’ attitude, Eliot stands up from the table and leaves the room. It was the first defeat in the life of a man devoid of feelings, who controlled his moods better than anyone, who was able to master complexity and confusion.
Leadership: Can identifying the need to be an influencer be a way of positioning your mind to engage thinking along the path of interrogation about human meaning in a trap of illusion?
Do you have the courage to enter a new field? In leadership, ups and downs aren’t always the same thing. Those who contribute to your success, to the improvement of your leadership qualities can be just the ones taking you down.
In the movie “Brotherhood of the Rose (1989)”, Romulus turned from a simple docile doer into a proficient initiator. His leadership potential wouldn’t have had dynamic force if he hadn’t created a lever that would increase the efficiency to a maximum. How did he manage to do that? Just as any leader who struggles to do something, he entered a new, difficult, but catching field. Using an appropriate persuasion strategy, he managed to make a good game, physically defeating his own stepfather, who was considered “the bottom pillar” of the CIA.
If the eyes are the mirror of the soul, then man will be responsible to the outside when his inner part will reflect the potential for a feeling of gratitude to someone or something. Therefore, your attitude of superiority can become an obsession transformed into a mask of the illusion of one’s own thinking, if it does not have as a point of support the feeling of unity. This is exactly what happened to Eliot, even though he was the head of the CIA. His lack of affection easily led him into a realm of illusion in which he could dominate his feelings by detaching himself from anything, any person, or any situation.
Are you able to consciously attempt to repress the feelings that have taken over your thoughts by casting an accusatory glance at a person who is the main subject of your life experiences?
The mistake, which turned out to be a blessing, belongs to Eliot. He produced the change of Romulus’ leadership structure, by not observing the values that he, himself, grafted in his son. It’s just like teaching someone the traffic rules, but not observing them yourself. In Eliot’s case, it was like he would have injured Romulus on the crossing, thus waking up his consciousness.
What about you? Does someone need to wake you up to reality? Does someone have to dig you in the ribs, trip you and get you injured, for you to become conscious and aware of your potential?
One of your duties as a leader is to make an inventory of just this kind of qualities that infuse with your structure. You must learn to wisely dose your feelings and lucidity determined by reason. If you let yourself overwhelmed by emotions and manifest them all the time, it means you are a weak person, which might harm you on long term.
As a football player is characterized by motor agility and integration in the team game, so your leadership must be characterized by agility of thinking, spirit and conscience, as well as their handling, for you to integrate in their strategic game of your own character, which is specially built and rebuilt to achieve maximum effect on your areas of interest and to reach a greater area of influence.
Masterly dose your leadership, to reach to people’s consciousness and change them.
Leadership results from your ability to share a self-management experience (self-awareness and self-control) in terms of the relationship between what sets you apart in the eyes of others and what you intend to communicate through non-verbal messages.
Romulus’ Victory is nothing less than the victory of every man who aspires to become a leader. Everyone can change his own level of thinking and action. Only the decision to go to the limit of your potential will help you achieve a leadership level that others are unable to reach.
Conclusion: Any victory can become a failure, as every failure can turn into victory. This requires a constant analysis of your own structure, potential and, especially, the actual situation faced by an aspiring leader. It also requires learning from others’ experience and mistakes, as well as applying some appropriate methods in unexpected situations. Therefore, a leader must feel when something goes wrong, to be in permanent alert in order to develop his ability of quick response.
