The Only One Defeated In The Battle Of Minds (II)

Put yourself in the place of others at the level of consequences you have to endure, before you rise above them at a level of competence and superiority.

I spoke in the previous article about Dr. Frederick Chilton, who, in the desire to show himself a connoisseur of the highest human realms, with the intention to expatiate in the field of psychiatry, dares the “shame” of showing himself above the phenomenal character of in psychiatry, the exceptional talent called Hannibal Lecter. He seeks a break in the intimidation of reality, by having more authority in the sanitarium near Baltimore, where the fiercest cannibal, the serial killer, this envoy of darkness, Hannibal, is held captive.

But the prisoner escapes through a very fine psychiatric trick, leaving Frederick Chilton speechless. Moreover, Hannibal is in the mood to invite his friend to “dinner”, thus seeking to induce the idea of true superiority to his favorite victim. Frederick Chilton’s enlightened theory of consciousness is no longer able to capture the new psychic elements that could tame his soul and moral attitude. The worst fear, the worst nightmare begins to haunt him harshly.

Can you avoid becoming a prisoner of your own mental projections without being overwhelmed by an external threat that tests your own weaknesses?

The doctor is completely lost, his spiritual condition being conditioned by future provisions, without the support of the will power to see further from the present moment. It is known how hard the psychiatrists change their views, but in the case of Frederick Chilton, every whiff of a sparrow is transformed into the sound of the wing-beating of a black, fierce, hungry eagle approaching him at full speed, ready to tear his heart out from his chest.

Here’s what we need to keep in mind: You can’t captivate someone’s attention unless you differ from him by courage or cowardice.

A pigeon that believes itself to be an eagle begins to fly chaotically to exhaustion when the true eagle hovers over it. Frederick Chilton is no longer attentive to things that relate to ideas in his spirit, hardly focusing his attention on things capable of being accomplished, completely oblivious of the predisposition for science. All he has to do is run desperately for help, knowing that no help can stop the bloody bullet of a maniacal psychology, which only Hannibal Lecter is able to pull close, without fail. In silence.

Is your efficiency in matters of performance when using leadership as a research instrument entailing a deep understanding of man conditioned by a series of inner loss? Do you want to give up on yourself and on the values proper to you only to embrace a new particular status – of authority? Do you listen to yourself before starting a conflict with yourself, because of the contradiction between the requirement for prudence and the requirement for expanding your potential?

To remain within the sphere of a wide range of side effects means to oppose any inner impulse for superiority, while expressing the desire to do things you normally do not want.

Before you expand your leader skills, before you dedicate yourself fully to the science of understanding man, be first an interior designer who knows how to build a lasting personality. Prepare yourself for a new way of being, without consuming yourself in vain for things that are not related to you, which will allow you to install in your life, without errors, new achievement and assertion particularities.

The term design, used in this sense, regards the unique creation of a character structure, as well as the production of positive values, which, by conditioning the moral and attitude profile, would help improve the general result in using leadership and practicing the science of persuasion.

Do you perfect your evolution through the strange perspective of an abstract and ambiguous EXILE, in contrast to increasing the desire for control and possession of a victorious power?

When the runner has reached the end of his strength and feels he has to stop running, he can walk. But he continues to put even more effort than his body allows him to, he will jeopardize his life.

In the context of the science to successfully deal with high ambitions, by checking that power to transform with respect to the efficiency conditioned by substantially using leadership, the strong tendency to expand science or a personal intention manifested in a research study would justify only up to a point the efforts to develop and improve.

The effort that takes hold and overwhelms man, hard to control especially in the first stages of his development cycle, is consumed in the inner disputes towards the outside. Alone, he isolates in the attempt to renew himself professionally. In other words, the intensity of those activities to use and exploit "foreign" resources with the purpose of widening knowledge, which appear as a result of manipulating human subjects in a study of their reactions in front of decisional alternatives, is as bigger as the leader-researcher wants to collect more information and knowledge necessary in his scientific progress.

But in this way, leadership will be placed below the floating line. And by building a more and more fragile credibility and an inefficient authority, the resonance between the leader and other people doesn't occur anymore, even if the informational transfer radiant surface is expanded. Consequently, he doesn't have any other option that to complete his evolution through the strange perspective of an ambiguous and abstract exile. Away from everything that means a good path, away from any association with the people around, away from any occasion to socialize.

The possession of a victorious power is a penetration into the complex nature of the facts that are above the threshold of the emotions of experiencing the reality of others at the expense of your own puppet status in society. Put yourself in the place of others before placing yourself in the lead.

Before practicing leadership it's important to be aware of what you are in relationship with yourself while interacting with others around. Are you a defeated who received his punishment because he dared to transform into an "extremist"?

To complete your evolution through the strange perspective of an abstract and ambiguous EXILE means to decide on your competence to judge a cause that hinders the application of the control action on other people, emphasizing the exploration of values (morality, honesty, non-aggression, professional honorability) that helps you give up the exacerbated manifestation of power.

The abstract and ambiguous exile is in fact a retreat into your own freedom, independent of the mind, analyzing the depth of your thoughts and your psychic from the perspective of a therapist who observes his patterns and motivations alone, analyzing what was the set of circumstances that gave birth the situation you are in.

Leadership is the art of becoming someone else in the field of a philosophy of science that says that no one can be above the world, but only the equal of those not separated from perfection.

The Only Defeated In The Battle Of Minds is the man who manages to be more than what his condition, ideals and status ask of him, so that he is aligned to his condition of a performer in a field that conscience considers “integral”, but one which vanity finds far too flexible, soft and loose.

* Note: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)