The difficulty of having new ideas is to everyone else they’re wrong ideas, at least that’s how people justify never having thought them. They don’t want to consider there’s a path they didn’t explore that came to a new conclusion. The leader has to motivate people with an idea they’ve never heard before and then lead them through new challenges. All the while the followers will be complaining and struggling against their own leader. The Israelites said to Moses, “It would be better we were still slaves in Egypt where we had food, then to starve in the desert.” I want everyone to be a star, but the reality is most people are below average. What I’ve come to accept as a leader or a social media influencer is followers have to be below the leader, if not the roles should be reversed. A struggle is created where the leader is hated for instructing people against their intuition and the followers are hated for needing to be told what to do; yet they need each other. I can’t tell you where we’re headed, only that we need to escape to the desert. The thing that doesn’t exist yet, we’re going to build it. When asked how I know it’ll work, I don’t know, but am saved through faith. After 40 years of wandering, Moses lead his people to the promise land, but never entered it.
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