“When crows find a dying snake they behave as if they were eagles. When I see myself as a victim, I am hurt by trifling failures.” - Shantideva

Today I left a well educated leader who may have lived the vast majority of his life out of the victim modality. Think this doesn’t relate to most of us? You would be wrong! The prevailing norm in my experience is that the majority of people see that life has done things to them . . . largely unfairly and undeservedly. Personal responsibility is rarely acknowledged.

This leader could do really good things, but has largely chosen to do tiny things because he has not owned his life well enough. It should be a gut check for all of us from my perspective.