The Best Leadership Advice of All Time

<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHKrDQG8ygclXbqqRcR1Ueved2dRUmiRCkjccuL4WKBfSm83_Okq6t5NDrDSFuoodDj3qVXNDN96G5co6iRyZTm-p-13so1LR6Z-eDaKeWyq_7e7_VYel-qybX7b6yLw2547c6uz-3e9HsTwFNVEjsf6eTMb7mWfRYGCjV-7ZbY1eujBV0BxRekv_N/s1199/Jacques-Louis%20David%20-%20The%20Death%20of%20Socrates.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1199" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHKrDQG8ygclXbqqRcR1Ueved2dRUmiRCkjccuL4WKBfSm83_Okq6t5NDrDSFuoodDj3qVXNDN96G5co6iRyZTm-p-13so1LR6Z-eDaKeWyq_7e7_VYel-qybX7b6yLw2547c6uz-3e9HsTwFNVEjsf6eTMb7mWfRYGCjV-7ZbY1eujBV0BxRekv_N/w640-h420/Jacques-Louis%20David%20-%20The%20Death%20of%20Socrates.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Socrates#/media/File:David_-_The_Death_of_Socrates.jpg">The Death of Socrates</a> by Jacques Louis David, 1787 (public domain - Wikimedia Commons)</span></em></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p></p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label></div><p><em></em></p><blockquote><em><strong>“The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.”</strong></em></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: right;"><em> — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1890</em></p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><p>What’s the greatest piece of advice ever given for goal setting?</p><p>Give it some thought before answering. </p><p>It’s something that was agreed on by all the Ancient Greek philosophers. They believed that in any situation you face — a crisis, a challenge, an opportunity — it is essential to know yourself.</p><p><strong>Know thyself.</strong></p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><p>I’ll grant you, it’s not easy to know yourself with so many distractions these days.</p><p>We’re too busy running from appointment to appointment, taking nine Zoom calls a day, getting message notifications on 17 different apps, drowning in data, being distracted by our social feeds…</p><p>We’re constantly running from ourselves. But why? Why does this epidemic of digital distraction constantly threaten our mental health?</p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><p>Because, like other viral entities, it finds the path of least resistance.</p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><p>It’s easier to do mind-numbing and mind-soothing things. Maybe you’re playing Wordle, or binging <em>Ozark</em>, <em>The Sopranos</em>, or <em>Bridgerton</em>; perhaps you’re doomscrolling through Twitter and Facebook, or envy-scrolling through Instagram…</p><p>The soporific salve of such pastimes (it seems laughable to call them “activities”) helps us pass the time, but to what end? Do we find ourselves enriched and informed afterward? More likely than not, we find ourselves angry, depressed, or envious—emotions that have been thrust upon us when we let our guard down.</p><p>And yet, we continue to run from ourselves…</p><p>But another ancient sage had the secret to success. </p><div class="paywall-jump"></div><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><h2>Master This and You’ve Got It Made</h2><p>One of the Seven Sages of the Ancient World was Thales of Miletus, a pre-Socratic mathematician and philosopher. And his advice stands the test of time.</p><p>People used to approach him and ask him questions — as you do when you find a sage.</p><p>They wondered what the most difficult thing in life was. He told them:</p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label></div><p><em></em></p><blockquote><em><strong>“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”</strong></em></blockquote><p></p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><p>What about the most satisfying thing in the world? True success.</p><p>When people skip over the hardest thing—knowing yourself—is it any wonder so many people find success so elusive?</p><p>When we take the time to reflect, we can better understand our blind spots, our weaknesses, our strengths. We can get to <em><strong>know ourselves</strong></em> better.</p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><p>Here’s an exercise to try the next time you have some time to yourself. Review these questions:</p><ol><li><p>What’s holding me back?</p></li><li><p>How can I be more helpful to my colleagues?</p></li><li><p>What perspective(s) am I missing?</p></li><li><p>What do I tend to neglect or shy away from?</p></li><li><p>What’s working well right now? How can I do more of that?</p></li></ol><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><p>We have more on self-coaching in the next episode of <em><strong><a href="http://pod.link/timeless">Timeless Leadership</a></strong></em>, featuring a conversation with David Novak, author of <em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/3DltiSb">Take Charge of You</a></strong></em>.</p><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-frameid="1313" data-dashlane-rid="9c4f7b161b2b7078" data-form-type="" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="//play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/22637264/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/424242/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile, when you have 15 minutes today, stop scrolling and put down that phone.</p><p>As yourself what Socrates or Thales might think of our current distracted lives.</p><p>Then get to the hard work of truly getting to know you.</p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><p>Thanks, and I’ll see you on the internet. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><figure><a class="image-link image2" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bac573-9902-4f3b-a2d1-6671a0ef7f0e_800x141.png" rel="nofollow" style="color: #007abe; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/72bac573-9902-4f3b-a2d1-6671a0ef7f0e_800x141.png","fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":141,"width":800,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":19165,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" height="141" original="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bac573-9902-4f3b-a2d1-6671a0ef7f0e_800x141.png" src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bac573-9902-4f3b-a2d1-6671a0ef7f0e_800x141.png" style="border: 0px solid rgb(211, 211, 211); display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 95%; padding: 4px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out 0s;" width="800" /></a></figure></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><hr /></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", serif, sans-serif; font-size: 22.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></h2><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">👉 Premium Members receive an additional related essay, plus curated links, stories, and audio and book recommendations every other week. 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The Best Leadership Advice of All Time

  The Death of Socrates  by Jacques Louis David, 1787 (public domain - Wikimedia Commons) “The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in h...

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How to Respond to the Unexpected

<p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrXEcFQSvkYiP2xcllYJ-ZpAr4Zwzcdy1t5UmnYYmj0Z34qOeSaAjOls1gXYTx3j74lOFLUA4WCPMAkOuRYm02Fv6-VZX3HFTTluwaQnc5OTKHSd8c6BZK8s1iUvMwJjMZ1VgpNYeBwXks0n0NGGb99k3YC47wsqUBUUvh-3MxijbjZyCZbT-94inR/s1002/Pierre-Narcisse%20Gu%C3%A9rin%20-%20The%20Return%20of%20Marcus%20Sextus.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1002" height="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrXEcFQSvkYiP2xcllYJ-ZpAr4Zwzcdy1t5UmnYYmj0Z34qOeSaAjOls1gXYTx3j74lOFLUA4WCPMAkOuRYm02Fv6-VZX3HFTTluwaQnc5OTKHSd8c6BZK8s1iUvMwJjMZ1VgpNYeBwXks0n0NGGb99k3YC47wsqUBUUvh-3MxijbjZyCZbT-94inR/w640-h574/Pierre-Narcisse%20Gu%C3%A9rin%20-%20The%20Return%20of%20Marcus%20Sextus.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Return_of_Marcus_Sextus_1799_Pierre-Narcisse_Gu%C3%A9rin.jpg">The Return of Marcus Sextus</a> </i>by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, 1799 (Wikimedia Commons - public domain)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><i><b>“So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.”</b> — Isaac Asimov, 1941</i></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Part of being a leader — or frankly just part of life — is understanding that things don’t always go as planned.</p><p>Case in point: I was going to be a doctor.</p><p>If it wasn’t for that science thing.</p><p>More on that, plus four things to know when preparing for disruption, after this story.</p><p><br /></p><p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">David had to make some changes to his life as well, altering a course that had been set out for him by his parents.</p><p>His father was cold and distant — a man who valued his reputation above all else, including the happiness of his family. He believed in duty first, and keeping his word.</p><p>David’s grandfather was more closely aligned with David’s own personality. He was a man who knew how to live life to its fullest: he enjoyed the outdoors, was an avid sportsman, a gourmand, and a ladies man. David emulated him.</p><p>He stayed out all hours, wore garish clothes, and kept company with less than desirable people. Nor did he take any pains to hide it; to him, this was who he was — not the cold, old-fashioned and emotionless persona prescribed for him.</p><p>As you can imagine, it got back to his father, who was less than pleased. Didn’t David understand how this reflected on him and his family? Didn’t he know that in his time, one doesn’t stray from the world of arranged marriages and predestined career paths?</p><p>David didn’t care, nor could he hold back any longer. He knew that it wasn’t the life he wanted, consequences be damned. And he said so, breaking his father’s heart in the process.</p><p>Indeed, the old man died not long after hearing it. Fortunately, he didn’t live to see what could come next: David left the family business and eloped with the woman whom his father had said disgraced the family name.</p><p>David did alright for himself, earning a reputation as a man who valued love over duty. A man who gave up everything for the woman he loved.</p><p>You see, David was Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Windsor — the second monarch in the House of Windsor, who served as King Edward VIII for one year, abdicated the throne before his coronation, becoming the Duke of Windsor and then marrying the twice-divorced Wallis Warfield Simpson.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJQ13OiFvIpqsyHFSMAYKDALwzut59Iy0fes2TQjzyhxJ3m9GqaYdrnfo0Zt0Y1IQSCdj4tjeq7C0RWeKSl4OcxJDa2ADtX8Wdp498UJWKgY1RFWUGEm4c8pQKpXau0b6uV4m5c5fQX64ez6Ad-kzG-ObyCkSeB_Mc5KOQpPj2l7KH5EghtdUtno_k/s1200/Duke.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1200" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJQ13OiFvIpqsyHFSMAYKDALwzut59Iy0fes2TQjzyhxJ3m9GqaYdrnfo0Zt0Y1IQSCdj4tjeq7C0RWeKSl4OcxJDa2ADtX8Wdp498UJWKgY1RFWUGEm4c8pQKpXau0b6uV4m5c5fQX64ez6Ad-kzG-ObyCkSeB_Mc5KOQpPj2l7KH5EghtdUtno_k/w640-h384/Duke.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><br /></figure></div><div><hr /></div><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"></pre></div><p><br /></p><p></p><blockquote><i><b>“The best-laid schemes of mice and men <br />       Go oft awry, <br />And leave us nothing but grief and pain, <br />       For promised joy!”</b> — Robert Burns, 1785</i></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><hr /><p><br />Life doesn’t always work out the way we think it will. And so, we trim our sails and adjust our rudder.</p><p>I had intended to be a pediatrician. I took all of the necessary courses and did the prep work: I was pre-med in college (with a classics major and a biology minor), president of the Pre-Med Society, took the MCATs… I even participated in a summer internship at Hartford Hospital, doing rotations across multiple departments and completing a research project in hematology/pathology.</p><p>Then, as I found myself halfway through the courses of the first year of med school (the big ones: biochemistry, physiology, anatomy) I realized I just couldn’t do it.</p><p>While I enjoyed the personal side of medicine — taking histories, getting to know patients, watching them respond — the science part of it was too much. I just didn’t think that way. And in speaking with many practicing physicians, I found that the job satisfaction rate at the time was about 50 percent.</p><p>And so, not wanting to completely throw away what I started, I determined what I would do next. At the time, headwinds of change were blowing across the field of medicine: managed care was on the horizon. So I turned my accumulated work into a master’s degree in medical science, coupled it with and M.B.A. in healthcare management, and sailed off to the business side of medicine. </p><p>How did I end up coaching and advising clients on leadership and communication, you ask? That’s a story for another time.</p><p><br /></p><div><hr /></div><p>The lessons for those changes are the same as they were for my first pivot:</p><h2><strong>1. Know your purpose</strong></h2><p>Understand what your true north is — what guides you, what keeps you true to yourself. That will help you determine what might be a fad or distraction.</p><p>My own purpose revolves around empathic leadership, helping people become better versions of themselves.</p><h2><strong>2. Have a plan</strong></h2><p>Knowing your purpose is a good first step, but without a plan, your purpose doesn’t have a chance of being expressed. With a goal in mind, you can construct a path to get there.</p><h2><strong>3. Anticipate disruption to the plan</strong></h2><p>We like to think of our plans as bulletproof; however, nothing in this life is certain. While you don’t want to be tepidly working toward something, you do need to ensure there’s an off-ramp in case things diverge from your plan.</p><h2><strong>4. Make a better plan</strong></h2><p>In that case, you need to acknowledge the reality, however painful it may be, and develop a plan that still addresses your purpose but that hews to conditions around you. <strong><a href="https://www.timelesstimely.com/p/patience-is-a-job?s=w">Admiral Stockdale knew how to do that</a></strong>.</p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><p>“May you live in interesting times,” as the Chinese curse goes. “Changing times” might be equally as relevant.</p><p>And you can guarantee that you will live in such times, as change is constant.</p><p>As a leader, you need to ask yourself how you’ll respond to the change that greets you.  </p><p><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Thanks, and I’ll see you on the internet. </p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><figure><a class="image-link image2" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bac573-9902-4f3b-a2d1-6671a0ef7f0e_800x141.png" rel="nofollow" style="color: #007abe; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/72bac573-9902-4f3b-a2d1-6671a0ef7f0e_800x141.png","fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":141,"width":800,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":19165,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" height="141" original="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bac573-9902-4f3b-a2d1-6671a0ef7f0e_800x141.png" src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bac573-9902-4f3b-a2d1-6671a0ef7f0e_800x141.png" style="border: 0px solid rgb(211, 211, 211); display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 95%; padding: 4px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out 0s;" width="800" /></a></figure></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><hr /></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", serif, sans-serif; font-size: 22.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></h2><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">👉 Premium Members receive an additional related essay, plus curated links, stories, and audio and book recommendations every other week. 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How to Respond to the Unexpected

The Return of Marcus Sextus by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, 1799 (Wikimedia Commons - public domain) “So the universe is not quite as you though...

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjP9-mTvs0lJYGDCw62weTZaqSGAQCMvun_rsPuRwUJe9mtmGegGzgE3lwKr5-B_NLE5j2T2qdvz7eQTJrwXcdVFfzDELY9-Q5iXCsSOUNtnk1KS5yTv98KLiQ1OIXVFdXytqlZWRxpT8ItdET8Jd6t6Dup8XQeSfSBNXmqqmLy1qM8zub180h6H-er=s1200" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="899" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjP9-mTvs0lJYGDCw62weTZaqSGAQCMvun_rsPuRwUJe9mtmGegGzgE3lwKr5-B_NLE5j2T2qdvz7eQTJrwXcdVFfzDELY9-Q5iXCsSOUNtnk1KS5yTv98KLiQ1OIXVFdXytqlZWRxpT8ItdET8Jd6t6Dup8XQeSfSBNXmqqmLy1qM8zub180h6H-er=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intervention_of_the_Sabine_Women#/media/File:F0440_Louvre_JL_David_Sabines_INV3691_rwk.jpg">Intervention of the Sabine Women</a></em> by Jacques-Louis David, 1799 (public domain - Wikipedia)</span></p><div class="preformatted-block" style="text-align: left;"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label></div><div><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em></em></p><blockquote><em><strong>“To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing, and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.”</strong></em></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><em><em>— Søren Kierkegaard, 1845</em></em></div><p></p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><p>In 1816, stuck indoors during what was known as the “<a href="https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/lord-byrons-darkest-summer">Year Without a Summer</a>,” Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the second wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, penned one of the all-time horror classics: <em>Frankenstein</em>.</p><p>More than 200 years later, to read that book is to understand human nature. But it is all the more astounding when we consider that she was a youth of only 18 when she wrote it.</p><p>Here we have a young woman who is a deep thinker about intellect and hubris, good and evil; an author whose writing was exquisite and whose ideas so intense that they gave rise to a genre of monster books, films, and more.</p><p>Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is an impressive figure.</p><p>And yet, in 1931, more than 100 years after her remarkable novel was published and her name had achieved lasting fame, when director James Whale gave her story life on the silver screen, he credited her as “Mrs. Percy B. Shelley.”</p><p>Monstrous.</p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><h2><strong>You’ve Come a Short Way, Baby</strong></h2><p>As advanced as we are in the 21st century, women are still not on equal footing as men.</p><p>It wasn’t until 2018 in Saudi Arabia that women were allowed to drive. But even still, men retain control over critical decisions in a woman’s life, such as if she is allowed to have a passport or if she may get married. A woman is treated as if she is a legal minor.</p><p>Here in the United States, the Declaration of Independence enumerated certain inalienable rights and the Constitution established voting rights. But it wasn’t until the 15th Amendment was passed in 1869 that ensured “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged…on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”</p><p>Unless you were a woman.</p><p>It wasn’t until the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920 — 50 years later — that women were seen as equals when it came to the ability to vote.</p><p>In the 1960s, women gained the right to open their own bank accounts, and in 1974 the Equal Credit Opportunity Act prohibited credit discrimination on the basis of gender.</p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><p>These are just a few examples, but at every turn, we find women having to fight harder for what is naturally given to men.</p><p>Women have to fight for maternity leave, equal pay, executive positions, boardroom seats — and most commonly, women have to <strong><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/womensmedia/2017/01/03/gal-interrupted-why-men-interrupt-women-and-how-to-avert-this-in-the-workplace/?sh=6f3a092f17c3">fight just to be heard in meetings</a></strong>.</p><p>So many women (and yes, it’s mostly women, although one of the consistent male voices on this topic is <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/tom_peters/status/988746904417832962">Tom </a><a href="https://twitter.com/tom_peters/status/989873237311057920">Peters</a></strong>) have documented this, talked about it, and written about it, that my paltry scribblings here pale in comparison to their efforts.<br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">In 22 years of work on women's issues I've repeatedly said my aim is not primarily social justice--it is better business performance. There is enough research to support that not to sink a ship, but a fleet of ships. E.g., more women on Boards, dramatically greater profitability.</p>— Tom Peters (@tom_peters) <a href="https://twitter.com/tom_peters/status/989873237311057920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p><br /></p><div><hr /></div><p><em></em></p><blockquote><em><strong>“It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion, that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.” </strong></em></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><em><em>— Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792</em></em></div><p></p><div><hr /></div><p>And yet, think of the sheer amount of work that women do — starting with mothers. Not only do they undergo the taxing physical process of gestation and childbirth, but they are tireless in their efforts to care for their children. Add an outside job (or jobs) to that, and the time and energy women expend is inordinate.</p><p>In a survey by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2021, when it came to time spent on household chores in 2020 versus 2019, men increased time spent by 16 minutes a day and women by 11. But overall, women did far more—2.4 hours daily, compared with 1.6 for men.</p><p>At the same time, the percentage of men doing housework and food prep each day decreased from 2019 to 2020, while the percentage of women doing those things increased.<a class="footnote-anchor" href="#footnote-1" id="footnote-anchor-1">1</a></p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><h2><strong>Nature vs. Nurture</strong></h2><p>We are a product of what we witness at home, but for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, that wasn’t a possibility. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, died just 11 days after giving birth to little Mary.</p><p>But mother Mary was a firebrand and a considerable author in her own right, and it may have genetically predisposed young Mary in that direction. Wollstonecraft wrote <em><strong>A Vindication of the Rights of Women</strong></em> in 1792 and dedicated it to Talleyrand, who had recently asserted that women should receive primarily a domestic education.</p><p>Incidentally, all of the Wollstonecraft quotes in today’s edition can be found in <em>A Vindication of the Rights of Women</em>.</p><p>The book served as something of a framework for 19th-century suffragists who rediscovered the book decades after Wollstonecraft’s death.</p><p>How fortunate Mary was to have such a strong and intelligent woman as her mother, whose work could serve as a moral compass. How fortunate we are to have other women like that in our midst today.</p><p>May we value them and elevate them as they deserve. 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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Intervention of the Sabine Women  by Jacques-Louis David, 1799 (public domain - Wikipedia) “To be a woman is something so strange, so confus...

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Bravery, Duty, and Sacrifice

<p><em></em></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3KueNeWMJPU5pWpqGnSgprjCMszFCvVmc_LC5gn6Qbi2GVkarz9BuUy1nYWcQYeW0OBAEgaPlB0Zk0POFKyODIFgL9ejHbABJtZMMr9dGda-PJnFnD3pihvzKbP0dvyUD_yTLLXjgXFUbZDJsdcWTOC-Gb2QCrpj8cWtGHETK60_KVCFzTnZHvWQd=s1080" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="1080" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3KueNeWMJPU5pWpqGnSgprjCMszFCvVmc_LC5gn6Qbi2GVkarz9BuUy1nYWcQYeW0OBAEgaPlB0Zk0POFKyODIFgL9ejHbABJtZMMr9dGda-PJnFnD3pihvzKbP0dvyUD_yTLLXjgXFUbZDJsdcWTOC-Gb2QCrpj8cWtGHETK60_KVCFzTnZHvWQd=w640-h378" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em style="background-color: white; color: #767676; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade#/media/File:Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade.jpg" rel="">The Charge of the Light Brigade</a></em><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #767676;"> by Richard Caton Woodville Jr., 1894 (public domain - Wikipedia)</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><em><br /><strong><br /></strong></em><p></p><p><em></em></p><blockquote><em><strong>“Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as be seen as a people with such responsibilities.” </strong><em>— Theodore Roosevelt, 1905</em></em></blockquote><p></p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><p>In recent years we’ve been in danger of pushing aside the concepts of bravery, duty, and sacrifice. Old-fashioned virtues for an old-fashioned society.</p><p>Where in the metaverse is there a need for bravery? From whence does the crypto world demand duty? What sacrifice is required of us on Clubhouse?</p><p>Over the last week, we’ve seen a generation’s worth of these values through Ukraine’s response to the Russian invasion.</p><p>Many Ukrainian civilians have been inspired to fight, with regular updates and messages coming directly from the Ukrainian leadership:</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">went and translated that zelensky selfie video from the streets of kyiv, just to know what he was actually saying in response to the russian reports that he had fled -- so here it is for the rest of you, plus this music naturally felt right. enjoy. <a href="https://t.co/JDLXtYAq5q">pic.twitter.com/JDLXtYAq5q</a></p>— Alex Kliment (@SaoSasha) <a href="https://twitter.com/SaoSasha/status/1497311531041640450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <p> </p><center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/p-zilnPtZ2M" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></center> <h1><br /></h1><h1>The Few, the Brave</h1><p></p><blockquote><em><strong>“Never in the field of human conflict was so much been owed by so many to so few.”</strong>— Winston Churchill, 1940</em></blockquote><p></p><p>The brave actions of the small but mighty Ukrainian forces are doing more than fighting for their country’s independence; they have inspired the entire Western world to stand up to an authoritarian, and the domino effect has been remarkably quick and severe.</p><p>Germany is re-arming, Finland and Sweden are interested in joining NATO,  Ukraine has applied to join the European Union, the E.U. has cut Russia from the SWIFT network, global companies are cutting ties with Russia.</p><p>As Jonathan Last wrote, “<a href="https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/the-west-is-winning-russia-is-losing?utm_source=url">That’s a decade’s worth of geopolitical change in four days</a>.”</p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><p>The collective morale and actions coming from Ukraine, its leaders, and its people reminded me of another conflict in that area of the world.</p><p>If you look up <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War">Crimean War</a> on Wikipedia, it helpfully points out: “<em>For the ongoing war fought over Crimea, see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War">Russo-Ukrainian War</a></em>.” And <em>that</em> page reminds us: “<em>This article is about the ongoing war. For the 1917–1921 war, see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Ukrainian_War">Soviet–Ukrainian War</a></em>.”</p><p>A century and a half of conflict on repeat.</p><p>1853</p><p>1917</p><p>2022</p><p>Crimea, the peninsula at the southern tip of Ukraine, has always been a region of contested sovereignty. And in 1853, many of the same players were involved.<br /> </p><p>Fought from October 1853 to February 1856, the Crimean War saw Russia lose to an alliance of France, the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom, and what is now Italy.</p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><h1>Charge!</h1><p>For our purposes, we’re going to look at the Battle of Balaclava — more specifically, the infamous <strong>Charge of the Light Brigade</strong> that took place on October 25, 1854.</p><p>The charge of the Light Brigade was founded on a simple mission: to retake a handful of captured British guns on a hilltop in the Crimean War.</p><p>But a bizarre misunderstanding turned it into a suicide dash.</p><p>The charge lasted to just under seven minutes. The myth has endured for 150 years.</p><p>It became and remains the embodiment of glorious courage and military stupidity. History has blamed a generation of aristocratic generals for a pointless tactical blunder.</p><p>Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote his famous poem “<strong><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45319/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade">Charge of the Light Brigade</a></strong>” just six weeks after the first newspaper report of the defeat.</p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> <em><strong>Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.</strong></em></pre></div><p>Six hundred-sixty four horsemen charged unsupported up the valley, through a gauntlet of three batteries, twenty-six battalions of Russians.</p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> <em><strong>“Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew Someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.</strong></em> </pre></div><p>Lord Fitzroy Somerset Raglan, the British commander-in-chief in Crimea, was concerned that the Russians would confiscate British artillery on the Causeway Heights. He expected the cavalry to move immediately, with the infantry to come later.</p><p>But George Bingham, the earl of Lucan, who commanded the cavalry, thought Raglan wanted them to attack together. As a result, Lucan’s men sat around for 45 minutes waiting for the infantry to arrive. At that point, Raglan issued a new order, telling the cavalry to “advance rapidly to the front … and try to prevent the enemy from carrying away the guns.”</p><p>Lucan couldn’t see any artillery being moved, so he asked Raglan’s aide-de-camp where to attack. But instead of pointing to the Causeway Heights, the aide allegedly waved his arm in the direction of a Russian artillery battery at the far end of an exposed valley.</p><p>James Brudenell, the earl of Cardigan, commanded the Light Brigade, and he and Lucan, though perturbed by Raglan’s order, obeyed it without verifying to make sure they understood it correctly. </p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> <em><strong>Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred.</strong></em> </pre></div><p>The Light Brigade began its mile-and-a-quarter-long charge, with Russian artillery trained on them from three sides. From behind them, the Heavy Brigade watched in horror as Light Brigade troops were mowed down, losing limbs, heads, and horses as the cannons volleyed.</p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> <em><strong>Flashed all their sabres bare, Flashed as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wondered. Plunged in the battery-smoke Right through the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reeled from the sabre stroke Shattered and sundered. Then they rode back, but not Not the six hundred.</strong></em> </pre></div><p>Miraculously, the Light Brigade, sabers drawn, broke through the Russian line, with no help from the Heavy Brigade, which had turned back. As the Light Brigade unleashed its fury on the enemy, the Russians fired indiscriminately at their own men as well as at the Light Brigade.</p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> <em><strong>Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell. They that had fought so well Came through the jaws of Death, Back from the mouth of hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred.</strong></em> </pre></div><p>Sensing defeat, the Light Brigade staggered into a retreat, weathering fire from the Russian artillery once again — but only from the Causeway Heights.</p><p>Approximately 110 cavalrymen were killed, with 160 wounded: a remarkable 40 percent casualty rate.</p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> <em><strong>When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wondered. Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred!</strong></em> </pre></div><p>Thanks to Tennyson’s poem that highlighted the bravery of the Light Brigade, their reputation for bravery and duty was immortalized.</p><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><h1>Lessons Aplenty</h1><p>The concept of following orders or making a difficult choice seems lost on us today. The courage shown in the current Russo-Ukrainian War — from both Russian soldiers, who may be seeing firsthand the folly of the invasion, and the Ukrainians, who seem to be synonymous with toughness — is particularly remarkable.</p><p>Especially when you consider the difficulty Americans have had with wearing masks over the last couple of years. Our sense of altruism was outstripped by our fierce individualism, as we “<a href="https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/i-would-prefer-not-your-honor">would prefer not to</a>,” in demonstrating American exceptionalism.</p><p>Meanwhile, the exceptional librarians of Ukraine are fighting:</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Bloody hell. Looking at a message from the Ukraine Library Association concerning the cancellation of their forthcoming conference. it basically says "We will reschedule just as soon as we have finished vanquishing our invaders". Ukrainian Librarians, I salute you</p>— Nicholas Poole (@NickPoole1) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickPoole1/status/1498309449169178634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <p>May we all feel such a sense of bravery, duty, and sacrifice. </p><i><blockquote><b>“When Duty whispers low, Thou must, </b><br /><b>The youth replies, I can.” </b><i>— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1867</i></blockquote></i><div class="preformatted-block"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false"></label><pre class="text"> </pre></div><p>Thanks, and I’ll see you on the internet. </p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><figure><a class="image-link image2" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bac573-9902-4f3b-a2d1-6671a0ef7f0e_800x141.png" rel="nofollow" style="color: #007abe; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/72bac573-9902-4f3b-a2d1-6671a0ef7f0e_800x141.png","fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":141,"width":800,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":19165,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" height="141" original="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bac573-9902-4f3b-a2d1-6671a0ef7f0e_800x141.png" src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bac573-9902-4f3b-a2d1-6671a0ef7f0e_800x141.png" style="border: 0px solid rgb(211, 211, 211); display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 95%; padding: 4px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out 0s;" width="800" /></a></figure></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><hr /></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", serif, sans-serif; font-size: 22.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></h2><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">👉 Premium Members receive an additional related essay, plus curated links, stories, and audio and book recommendations every other week. 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Bravery, Duty, and Sacrifice

The Charge of the Light Brigade  by Richard Caton Woodville Jr., 1894 (public domain - Wikipedia) “Much has been given us, and much will rig...

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