"On Becoming a Leader" by Warren Bennis was one of the books I read in my doctoral studies. It's subtitle is "The Leadership Classic." I found it this morning, opened it up, and found this underlined phrase:
"Know thyself, then, means separating who you are and who you want to be from what the world thinks you are and wants you to be."
This - this - is what feels different to me. I know that I will continue to process what spurred me toward this move, and that there may a jillion things that I will name that contributed. Today, this rings true.
My supervisor viewed me a certain way, and it did not match with who I knew myself to be and what I knew myself capable of.
And perhaps, this is why I feel a sense of "freedom." I am somewhere where no one has a "notion" of who I am. I can live in who I am and who I want to be, without constraints of what the world thinks I am and wants me to be. I can live, listening for the next hint of what and where I am to grow into, and move as a whole person.
Given this, I can now understand why my journey is here - why I was called here. There is a space to move towards - beyond the views of others that held me stagnant in my workplace.
No more words. No Pics. It will be good to sit with this one awhile.
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