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Everything Depends on Who Leads

The Blackbird's Song

On September 17, 2012
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Leadership and Attitude by Neculai Fantanaru

Personalize your road towards yourself, until you manage to unravel the darkest mysteries of the real part that characterizes you.

Like a man overwhelmed by a mysterious feeling, tempted by an unknown phenomenon of which I cannot disembarrass, I felt myself lost in a world torn by contradictions, un monde de nulle part, that I did not know and which I could not master. I pleaded in favor of a deep consciousness existence, mystical, as if coming from another realm, from a different dimension, from an immeasurably space, from an Avalon.

Probably I was going through a trance of routine. Something was repeating like a pattern, like an obsessive refrain, ironically, with all sorts of connotations, generating a great mix of exaggerations and falsehoods laced with erroneous conclusions, which conveyed a special emotional charge. Like a phenomenon of ectoplasm: something seemed to dwell in me, emanating a certain vibration. A kind of force, an intense feeling, a so rare self-awareness, a crucial virtue that could raise me or it could rather make me knock out at any time. I did not believe in the wisdom of the "Man" from me. I looked tired, with discharged batteries.

Leadership: Is the value of a revelation gained through introspection directly proportional to the degree of contradiction it introduces into your consciousness?

What it was happening, was more than the appearance of new states of consciousness, was a decisive and triggering factor, the deep burden of sweeping and unhindered emotion, which died, taking the place of a lesson of life. The evolution put face to face with the revolution of individual responsibility. The overwhelming anguish of an entire world, of a continuously changing whole, of a life lived mostly through the eyes of a passerby who notices the other side of the world, marked by a steadiness that for some people is hard to imagine.

Once with each entry in "trance" with every great breakdown of a deep knowledge form, were taking shape other unanswered questions. The reason was letting itself be touched, almost defeated by the void passion of my own spontaneous dilemmas and contradictions. The essence of my own existence being conditioned by another way of interpreting the reality. Only one contradiction put my thought and feelings to the test: that I could observe the unseen part of a world, without knowing it so well.

Are you losing yourself in a world you cannot master, in an attempt to shape a perspective that pulses as a state of mind?

And only the reality that triggering "song" of positive changes, for wider visions, whose composition was more or less like anyone else, and whose strong message woke me of trance, made me feel good with myself, and to give new meanings to life. More real, more comprehensive, less private. The song, reflecting my mood, was the conclusion of a whole life from another point of view.

It was something in my transformation, similar to the anguish of a bird locked in a cage, and that bumps stubbornly on the bars until managing to regain the sky. A blackbird can regain her freedom only through her song.

What is the inner "chorus" that constantly accompanies you on the road to excellence and that gives coherence to your episodic and narrative self?

We are increasingly interested in trends and developments in technology, in the factors influencing our business of tomorrow than in ourselves. We should come back, is not it, to a series of simple principles that have been disregarded in the context of a fierce competition in the business world. For example, the principle of the multiple self, which says: “To live as if you were someone else is the same as when you build a new world that serves only you.”

Do you let yourself tempted by an "unknown" of whom you cannot get rid? Do you feel like getting lost in a world torn by contradictions that you cannot master? How do you interpret your own reality? In what way your reality conditions the essence of your own personality? Do you continue mobilizing that real part of you, or you continue to feed your desires or needs to a "false ego" of a "truncated ego"?

What "song" characterizes you? How can you adjust the song in order to get the refrain? What is the "refrain" that you constantly feel in your life, on your road towards excellence? Do you unconsciously obey yourself to some rules that transform your freedom of "being" in a closed area? What effect exercises your own way of being over the leadership that you practice?

A self that explores its world as a mode of expression, communicating emotion and soothing its soul, is a self freed from doubt of its own worth.

The Blackbird’s Song is a revealing metaphor signifying the idea of liberation from the cage of appearances and uncertainties concerning the nature of your personality. The freedom to escape is rare, sometimes impossible. However, the refusal to recognize the key, and to open the door to a different kind of "being" will lead you to a perpetual ruin, and can always make knock-out of your evolution as a "man" not only as "leader".

Personalize your road towards yourself, until you manage to unravel the darkest mysteries of the real part that characterizes you.

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