The Daily Stoic - This is The Reward For Being A Leader

Episode Date: June 3, 2022

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For more, you can visit us at dailystowett.com. This is the reward for being a leader. Harry Truman was a tremendously unpopular president. Just look at the decisions he had to make during his tenure. Dropping the atomic bomb. Twice, the Berlin airlift, the Korean War, desegregating the armed forces, nationalizing steel mills during the labor strike, firing corrupt IRS officials who took bribes. Marcus really is for his part has been largely overlooked by historians because his

reign was defined not by the blessings of fortune but by massive problems outside of his control. but by massive problems outside of his control, a border war, a coup, a pandemic, plans for a succession interrupted by tragedy. Both Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus would quote a fragment from a play with prophesied the fate of all kings to earn a bad reputation by good deeds. And as a leader or someone aspiring to leadership, it's important that you know this. You will not be showered with praise for doing the right thing. You will not be given the benefit of the doubt for making hard, but necessary choices. On the contrary, the nays will twist your words to make a trap for fools. You will be attacked. You will have your motives questioned. You will not be appreciated not now and maybe not even until long after you're gone like Truman eventually was or ever as Marcus really is underratedness a test

But should this stop you? No, it should not it cannot because you must do what is right What is best for you and for those who need your leadership. We do what's right because it is right because we are the leader because it is our duty. The rest doesn't matter. One of the best things I think we've done here at Daily Stoke is our leadership course, the Daily Stoke Leadership Challenge. It's our biggest course. It's our most involved course. We've got to talk to all different kinds of leaders in our deep

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