Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and actinterdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or … - Stephen Covey

Because the struggle continues, I retire frequently to the solitude of my own inner self to recommit to win my battles privately, to get my motives straight.

It takes an enormous amount of internal security to begin with the spirit of adventure, the spirit of discovery, the spirit of creativity. Without doubt, you have to leave the comfort zone of base camp and confront an entirely new and unknown wilderness. You become a trailblazer, a pathfinder. You open new possibilities, new territories, new continents, so that others can follow.

When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.